The Decorated Body

L’émergence du corps paré

“…Marqueur d'appartenance à une catégorie sociale À l'intérieur d'une société, l'objet de corps sert souvent à marquer l'appartenance d'un individu à un ou plusieurs groupes sociaux (Roach & Eicher 1965, Strathern & Strathern 1971, Kuper 1973, Corwell & Schwarz 1979, Brain 1979, Turner 1980, Carey 1998, Dubin 1987, Preston-Whyte 1994, Sciama & Eicher 1998. Selon les sociétés, les groupes sociaux sont déterminés par le sexe de l'individu (O'Hear 1998, Meisch 1998, par son âge (enfance, adolescence, maturité, vieillesse) et/ou par le franchissement, au cours de sa vie, de certaines étapes biologiques (puberté, ménopause) et relationnelles (célibat, mariage, veuvage).…”

Reviews and abstracts

“…Concerning ethnocentrism, we would certainly adopt a different textbook if we believed that referring, for example, to foot binding (p. 85) as "crippled feet" constituted ethnocentrism, as Becker suggests. Anthropologists have condemned the practice as physically harmful (Brain, 1979) and even life threatening (O'Kelly & Carney, 1986). The overt and covert message of Sexual Practices is that sexual behavior and arousal patterns are so varied worldwide that a judgmental attitude is next to impossible.…”

Medicalisation of Media; Mediatisation of Medicine: Towards an Illness Society

“…The thought that modern societies are bodily or at least based on body has been discussed for a long time by different academic disciplines from medicine to sociology, from philosophy to art, and from media to pedagogy (Kern, 1975;Blacking, 1977;Polhemus, 1978;Brain, 1979;Featherstone, 1982;Freund, 1982;Armstrong, 1983;Turner, 1984;Shilling, 1993;Crossley, 2001). All these studies, which hypothesise the body as non-natural and fictional asset (Grosz, 1994), dealt with it mainly in the theoretical contexts of onthological question, civilisation paradox, socio-political and economical representation, sense of community, consumerism and culture change.…”