The Consuming BodySAGE Publications, 1994 M11 11 - 256 páginas This book provides 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. The author 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 i |
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... person as a construct or artifice , as the product of social intervention and cultural organization . The individual , as a creation of social and historical arrange- ments , was revizable . The idea that the world is a stage and all ...
... person as a construct or artifice , as the product of social intervention and cultural organization . The individual , as a creation of social and historical arrange- ments , was revizable . The idea that the world is a stage and all ...
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... person ' both ' absorbs heterogeneous material influences ' but also ' transmit from themselves particles of their own coded substances that reproduce in others something of the nature of the person in whom they have originated ...
... person ' both ' absorbs heterogeneous material influences ' but also ' transmit from themselves particles of their own coded substances that reproduce in others something of the nature of the person in whom they have originated ...
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... person rather than on the modern trend towards situational identification ) , its function differs essentially from the adverts that referred to Queen Victoria in the late nineteenth century . Queen Victoria lends her prestige ...
... person rather than on the modern trend towards situational identification ) , its function differs essentially from the adverts that referred to Queen Victoria in the late nineteenth century . Queen Victoria lends her prestige ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Body Self and Culture | 10 |
Corporeality and History | 45 |
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