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Carved Flesh / Cast Selves: Gendered Symbols and Social Practices

Hardback

Main Details

Title Carved Flesh / Cast Selves: Gendered Symbols and Social Practices
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Tone Bleie
Edited by Vigdis Broch-Due
Edited by I. Rudie
SeriesCross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:312
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
ISBN/Barcode 9780854967254
ClassificationsDewey:305.3
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Berg Publishers
Publication Date 6 January 1993
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Carved Flesh / Cast Selves

Author Biography

Vigdis Broch-Due I. Rudie Department of Social Anthropology,University of Oslo Tone Bleie Chair, Michelsen's Institute, Bergen

Reviews

"... advances the theoretical discourse on the anthropology of the body ... is also intriguing because it introduces the reader to the "hotbed" of Norwegian thought on gender." Folk 'There is something for everyone here and reading the volume in sequence, rather than dipping into individual chapters, was an unusually pleasurable experience. The changing foci and styles produced its own rhythm, engaging the attention and maintaining the reader's interest as a complex theoretical argument would be superseded by a more descriptive and evocative ethnographic account. [...] In allowing us access to contemporary Norwegian anthropology it is a most welcome contribution and in providing further studies of gender it should prove a useful resource for both teachers and students of sociology and anthropology.' Journal of Gender Studies