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Bringing the body back into theory and methodology

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This is a discussion of a book by Kathryn Linn Geurts, Culture and the Senses. Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002; and a book by Judith Farquhar, Appetites. Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China, Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2002.

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  1. Pierre Bourdieu, Pascalian Meditations (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000), 137.

  2. Bryan Turner, The Body & Society, 2nd ed. (London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: Sage, 1996), xiii.

  3. Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” in Paul Rabinow, editor, The Foucault Reader. (New York: Pantheon, 1984): 83.

  4. See Thomas J. Csordas, “Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology,” Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 18/1 (1990): 5–47; and Thomas J. Csordas, “Somatic Modes of Attention,” Cultural Anthropology 8/2 (1993): 135–156.

  5. Geurts mentions this aspect, but her argument revolves around balancing as a moral code.

  6. Thomas J. Csordas, “Introduction: The Body as Representation and Being-in-the-World,” in Thomas J. Csordas, editor, Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 1–24; here p. 13.

  7. Jeffrey Alexander, “The Reality of Reduction. The Failed Synthesis of Pierre Bourdieu,” in Jeffrey Alexander, Fin de Siècle Social Theory. Relativism, Reduction, and the Problem of Reason (London/New York: Verso, 1994), 128–218; here p. 144.

  8. See, for example, Pierre Bourdieu, Pascalian Meditations (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 138–142.

  9. Erving Goffman, “On Fieldwork,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 18/2 (1989): 124–132; here p. 125. This is a transcription of a recorded informal talk that Goffman gave at the Pacific Sociological Association Meeting in 1974. His widow agreed to publish it.

  10. Loïc Wacquant, Body & Soul. Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), viii.

  11. Loïc Wacquant, Carnal Connections. On Embodiment, Apprenticeship, and Membership. Forthcoming: Qualitative Sociology 28/4 (December 2005).

  12. Ibid., 17.

  13. Ibid., 18.

  14. Loïc Wacquant, Body & Soul. Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004): 6.

  15. Judith Farquhar, “Whose Bodies?” Qualitative Sociology, 28/2 (Summer 2005): 191–196.

  16. Loïc Wacquant, Carnal Connections. On Embodiment, Apprenticeship, and Membership. Qualitative Sociology, 28/4 (December 2005).

  17. Bryan Turner, The Body & Society (London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: Sage, 1996), 42.

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Buchholz, L. Bringing the body back into theory and methodology. Theor Soc 35, 481–490 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-006-9010-0

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