Social Bodies

Social BodiesA proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and ethical concerns about the social implications of recent developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we treat the human body and our attitudes towards it have changed. This volume asks what really happens to social relations in the face of new types of transaction such as organ donation, forensic

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cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material

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and often they make use of the new spaces provided for counter-hegemonic narratives by social media and the growing private economy in the 2000s

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Exercises interspersed throughout each case study include numerous open-ended and multiple-choice questions to facilitate learning and critical thinking

The descriptive sections of this book provide surprising insights into the lives of the inhabitants of Bronze Age Lerna

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