Body of Nature and Culture

Informationen zum Autor ROD GIBLETT is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, School of Communications and Contemporary Arts, Edith Cowan University, Australia. He is the author of Postmodern Wetlands: Culture, History , Ecology; Living with the Earth: Mastery to Mutuality ; Forrestdale: People and Place ; Health Recovery: The Taoist Tai Chi™ Way and Sublime Communication Technologies . Klappentext This book explores the relationship of human bodies with natural and cultural environments, arguing that these categories are linked and intertwined. It argues for an environmentally sustainable and healthy relationship between the body and the earth. Zusammenfassung This book explores the relationship of human bodies with natural and cultural environments, arguing that these categories are linked and intertwined. It argues for an environmentally sustainable and healthy relationship between the body and the earth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Where Land and Body Meet: Body Culture and Nature Machine Body of Modern Western Medicine Battlefield Body in Illness Narratives Grotesque Body of the Lower Strata Monstrous Body of the Slimy Depths Fascist Body of the War-machine Writing on the Surface of the Textual Body Sporting Body Imprisoned in the Time-machine Cyborg: The Body-machine of the Civilian-soldier Taoist Body of the Earth Healthy Land, Healthy Body: State of the Environment, State of Health

List of contents

Where Land and Body Meet: Body Culture and Nature Machine Body of Modern Western Medicine Battlefield Body in Illness Narratives Grotesque Body of the Lower Strata Monstrous Body of the Slimy Depths Fascist Body of the War-machine Writing on the Surface of the Textual Body Sporting Body Imprisoned in the Time-machine Cyborg: The Body-machine of the Civilian-soldier Taoist Body of the Earth Healthy Land, Healthy Body: State of the Environment, State of Health

Product details

• Authors: R Giblett, R. Giblett, Rod Giblett, Rodney Giblett, GIBLETT RODNEY
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2008
• EAN: 9780230222731
• ISBN: 978-0-230-22273-1
• No. of pages: 219
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Social History, Environment, Anthropology, Social & cultural history, Society & culture: general, The environment, Media and Communication, Environmental Sciences, Environment, general, Culture—Study and teaching, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Civilization—History, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Sociology of the Body, Human body—Social aspects, culture;environment;fascism;health;nature