| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 202 pages) |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Embodying Cape Town; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; Works Cited; 2 Making Englishness; Architecture as Experimentation; Meaning and Architecture; Making Imperial Englishness; Cape Colonial Architecture; Gender and the Performance of Architecture; Conclusion; Works Cited; 3 Forgetting District Six; The Politics of Reclamation; Memory and Embodiment; The District That Was; Beginning Well in Rooms; Standing "Saam"; Kroes Hare; Playing in the Streets; Conclusion; Works Cited; 4 Redistributing Personhood; Unmaking; Original Shame; A Movement and an Icon; Miscast; Specimens Talk Back. |
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A Funeral of SortsConclusion; Note; Works Cited; 5 Alternative by Design; Technopolitics and the Modern Telos; The Toilet War; The Aesthetics of Waste in Europe; The City of Stinks; Modernizing Discrimination; Toilets for Africans; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
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? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cape Town (South Africa)
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Material culture -- South Africa -- Cape Town.
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Material culture. |
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South Africa -- Cape Town. |
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City planning -- South Africa -- Cape Town.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General. |
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City planning. |
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HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa. |
| Other Form: |
Printed edition: 9781137587107 |
| ISBN |
9781137587114 (electronic book) |
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1137587113 (electronic book) |
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9781137587107 |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/978-1-137-58711-4 |
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