Carved Flesh / Cast Selves: Gendered Symbols and Social Practices

by Tone Bleie (Editor), Vigdis Broch-Due (Editor), I. Rudie (Editor)

Overview

Carved Flesh / Cast Selves

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780854968688
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/06/1993
Series:	Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women , #8
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

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Carved Flesh / Cast Selves

Table of Contents

Carved Flesh / Cast Selves

Editorial Reviews

... advances the theoretical discourse on the anthropology of the body ... is also intriguing because it introduces the reader to the "hotbed" of Norwegian thought on gender.” —Folk

“There is something for everyone here and reading the volume in sequence, rather than dipping into individual chapters, was an unusually pleasurable experience. The changing foci and styles produced its own rhythm, engaging the attention and maintaining the reader's interest as a complex theoretical argument would be superseded by a more descriptive and evocative ethnographic account. [...]

In allowing us access to contemporary Norwegian anthropology it is a most welcome contribution and in providing further studies of gender it should prove a useful resource for both teachers and students of sociology and anthropology.” —Jourbanal of Gender Studies

From the Publisher

There is something for everyone here and reading the volume in sequence, rather than dipping into individual chapters, was an unusually pleasurable experience. The changing foci and styles produced its own rhythm, engaging the attention and maintaining the reader's interest as a complex theoretical argument would be superseded by a more descriptive and evocative ethnographic account. [...]

In allowing us access to contemporary Norwegian anthropology it is a most welcome contribution and in providing further studies of gender it should prove a useful resource for both teachers and students of sociology and anthropology.

Journal of Gender Studies

... advances the theoretical discourse on the anthropology of the body ... is also intriguing because it introduces the reader to the "hotbed" of Norwegian thought on gender.

Folk