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The Consuming Body
Contributor(s): Falk, Pasi (Author)

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 ISBN: 0803989741     ISBN-13: 9780803989740
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
OUR PRICE: $78.85  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1994
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - General
Dewey: 301
LCCN: 94066633
Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (0.81 lbs) 256 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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This book provides a fascinating examination of the relationship between consumption, the idea of the body and the formation of the self. In tracing these connections, The Consuming Body develops a profile of individuality in the late twentieth century - in both its bodily and mental aspects.

Pasi Falk offers a major synthesis and critical assessment of the debates surrounding the body, the self and contemporary consumer culture. The author explores two fundamental issues for modern social theory - the delineation of modern consumption and the body′s historically changing position in various cultural orders. In the course of his argument he examines both metaphors of consumption and investigates the issues of representation i

Contributor Bio(s): Falk, Pasi: - Pasi Falk is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki
 
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