The Consuming BodyThis is a fascinating examination of the relationship between consumption, the idea of the body and the formation of the self. In tracing these connections, The Consuming Body develops a profile of individuality in the late twentieth century - in both its bodily and mental aspects. 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. In the course of his argument he examines both metaphors of consumption and investigates the issues of representation in advertising and pornography. |
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... eating and consump- tion provides him with an important way of developing the notion of social solidarity from an analysis of the consuming body . One might note that the very word sociology comes from the Latin socius meaning ...
... eating and consump- tion provides him with an important way of developing the notion of social solidarity from an analysis of the consuming body . One might note that the very word sociology comes from the Latin socius meaning ...
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... eating . While sociologists have typically grounded social solidarity in the idea of shared values , there may be a more primitive notion of community , that is an eating community . Here again the mouth is a particularly interesting ...
... eating . While sociologists have typically grounded social solidarity in the idea of shared values , there may be a more primitive notion of community , that is an eating community . Here again the mouth is a particularly interesting ...
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... eating in the restaurant but also by the application of science through dietetics and nutrition to the production of effective and efficient means of eating . One could imagine a research programme which would trace the impact of home ...
... eating in the restaurant but also by the application of science through dietetics and nutrition to the production of effective and efficient means of eating . One could imagine a research programme which would trace the impact of home ...
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... eating is a genuine sociological contribution to economic theory , again very much in the tradition of Durkheim's critique of Manchester economics and its utili- tarian assumptions . Pasi Falk takes us a long way towards a comprehensive ...
... eating is a genuine sociological contribution to economic theory , again very much in the tradition of Durkheim's critique of Manchester economics and its utili- tarian assumptions . Pasi Falk takes us a long way towards a comprehensive ...
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... ( eating ) but also due to its expressive functions , as an organ of speech . - Chapter 3 ( ' Corporeality and History ' ) delineates an historical process transforming the relatively ' open ' pre - modern body , allowing a wider range of ...
... ( eating ) but also due to its expressive functions , as an organ of speech . - Chapter 3 ( ' Corporeality and History ' ) delineates an historical process transforming the relatively ' open ' pre - modern body , allowing a wider range of ...
Contents
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Chapter 3 Corporeality and History | 45 |
Chapter 4 Towards an Historical Anthropology of Taste | 68 |
Chapter 5 Consuming Desire | 93 |
on the Genealogy of modern advertising | 151 |
Chapter 7 Pornography and the Representation of Presence | 186 |
References | 218 |
Name Index | 232 |
Subject Index | 235 |
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