Body Cultures: Essays on Sport, Space & Identity by Henning Eichberg

by John Bale (Editor), Chris Philo (Editor)

Overview

Body Cultures explores the relationship between the body, sport and landscape. This book presents the first critically edited collection of Henning Eichberg's provocative essays into 'body culture'. Eichberg, a well-known scholar in continental Europe who draws upon the ideas of Elias, Focault, Habermas and others, is now attracting considerable interest from Anglo-American sociologists, historians and geographers. This collection has been extensively edited to highlight Eichberg's most important arguments and themes. Introductory essays from the editors and Susan Brownell provide clear explanations and interpretations as well as a biography of Eichberg.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415172325
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/25/1997
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1440L (what's this?)

About the Author

John Bale is Reader in Geography and Education at Keele University and Chris Philo is Professor of Geography at Glasgow University.

Table of Contents

List of figures, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, Introductory essays, Essays by Henning Eichberg, The body in space, Bodies, cultures and identities, Towards a new paradigm, Index

Editorial Reviews

A collection of seven essays by Eichberg, a cultural sociologist in Denmark, aimed at readers in the fields of social sciences and humanities. The first two essays are concerned with the body in space and were chosen to illustrate aspects of what Eichberg claims about the `territorialisation' of the human body. The next two essays tackle bodies, cultures, and identities and relate body cultural practices to national or cultural identities. The concluding three papers point towards a new paradigm in studies of the sporting human body and of the sporting cultural landscape. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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