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245 00 African realities :|bbody, culture and social tensions /
|cedited by Josep Martí.
264 1 Newcastle upon Tyne :|bCambridge Scholars Publishing,
|c2014.
264 4 |c©2014
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504 Includes bibliographical references.
505 0 Part I. Youth's bodies -- Part II. Gender issues -- Part
III. Tradition-modernity dialectics -- Part IV. Bodies as
strategies in the social arena.
520 "African Realities: Body, Culture and Social Tensions is
the result of research anthropology work carried out in
different African countries, mainly in Equatorial Guinea,
but also in Senegal, Cabo Verde, Benin and Ethiopia. All
the different chapters of this volume address a diversity
of subjects related to relevant issues, such as gender,
age, social class, ethnicity and coloniality, which are
indispensable for understanding current African realities.
Furthermore, all of these chapters investigate the
importance people place on the body and, more concretely,
the manner in which these people present it to others as a
common denominator. After a brief theoretical introduction
about the key concept of the book -- the social
presentation of the body -- the contributors analyse the
results of their own fieldwork, taking as a starting point
the central role that the body plays in the relationship
between the individual and society. As is clearly shown in
this book, the social presentation of the body matters.
From a general and structural point of view it matters
because of its great significance within social logics,
but it also matters because of its relevant role in
situational dynamics of social interaction, and because of
its close relationship with the emotional registers of
individuals. If the issue related to the social
presentation of the body has an undoubted interest for the
academic milieu, it is also true that it has great social
relevance and constitutes an undeniable political concern.
The policies related to the social presentation of the
body serve to mark, justify, maintain or even build
hierarchical relationships of social order, at the level
of class, gender, ethnicity or age. Throughout the book,
and from the African studies perspective, different views
are offered concerning how the body, being not only medium
of expression, but at the same time a site of experience
and construction of the self, appears in the centre of
social tensions and is an object of strategy, control or
resistance"--Provided by publisher.
588 0 Print version record.
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