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The consuming body / Pasi Falk.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)Publication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1994.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 238 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781848609723
  • 1848609728
  • 0585336938
  • 9780585336930
  • 9781446250648
  • 1446250644
  • 9781283881227
  • 1283881225
  • 0803989733
  • 9780803989733
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Consuming body.DDC classification:
  • 301 20
LOC classification:
  • GN298 .F35 1994eb
Other classification:
  • 08.42
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface / Bryan S. Turner -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Body, Self and Culture -- 3. Corporeality and History -- 4. Towards an Historical Anthropology of Taste -- 5. Consuming Desire -- 6. Selling Good(s); on the genealogy of modern advertising -- 7. Pornography and the Representation of Presence.
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Summary: Pasi Falk offers a major synthesis and critical assessment of the debates surrounding the body, the self and contemporary consumer culture. He explores two fundamental issues for modern social theory - the delineation of modern consumption and the body's historically changing position in various cultural orders.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-231) and indexes.

Pasi Falk offers a major synthesis and critical assessment of the debates surrounding the body, the self and contemporary consumer culture. He explores two fundamental issues for modern social theory - the delineation of modern consumption and the body's historically changing position in various cultural orders.

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Preface / Bryan S. Turner -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Body, Self and Culture -- 3. Corporeality and History -- 4. Towards an Historical Anthropology of Taste -- 5. Consuming Desire -- 6. Selling Good(s); on the genealogy of modern advertising -- 7. Pornography and the Representation of Presence.

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