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    Embodying Cape Town

Embodying Cape Town

Shannon M. Jackson
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      This book examines the reciprocity that exists between the body and the urban built environment.  It will draw on archival and ethnographic research as well as an interdisciplinary literature on cultural materialism, semiotics, and aesthetics to challenge dualist interpretations of four different points of historical-material contact in Cape Town, South Africa. Each chapter attends to different groups, social practices, and historical periods, but all share the fundamental questions:  how does material culture reflect the way social agents make meaning through bodily contact with urban built form, and how does such meaning challenge the ways bodies are objectified?  Further, how can we make sense of the historical processes embedded in the objectification of bodies without treating the social and the material, the mental and the physical as separate realities? 
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Shannon M. Jackson EAN: 9781137587107 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 3796 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-07-11 CITY: GENRE: ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      City and town planning: architectural aspects, Urban communities, Human geography

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      Shannon M. Jackson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at University of Missouri, Kansas, USA.
      This book examines the reciprocity that exists between the body and the urban built environment.  It will draw on archival and ethnographic research as well as an interdisciplinary literature on cultural materialism, semiotics, and aesthetics to challenge dualist interpretations of four different points of historical-material contact in Cape Town, South Africa. Each chapter attends to different groups, social practices, and historical periods, but all share the fundamental questions:  how does material culture reflect the way social agents make meaning through bodily contact with urban built form, and how does such meaning challenge the ways bodies are objectified?  Further, how can we make sense of the historical processes embedded in the objectification of bodies without treating the social and the material, the mental and the physical as separate realities? 
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Shannon M. Jackson EAN: 9781137587107 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 3796 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-07-11 CITY: GENRE: ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      City and town planning: architectural aspects, Urban communities, Human geography

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      Shannon M. Jackson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at University of Missouri, Kansas, USA.

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