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ISBN: 157766180X

ISBN13: 9781577661801

Culture and the Human Body: An Anthropological Perspective

By John W. Burton

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In the course of human prehistory and continuing to the present day, culture has played a prominent role in transforming the human form. From birth to death, the body serves as a medium and metaphor of cultural expression. This book provides a broadly comparative perspective on the many and varied ways in which the human body has been sculpted and transformed by particular cultural traditions and argues that in significant ways, the human body has transcended the laws of natural selection. To appreciate the human body is to acknowledge the various ways in which it has become a cultural artifact rather than a purely natural phenomenon. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:157766180X

ISBN13:9781577661801

Release Date:February 2001

Publisher:Waveland Press

Length:129 Pages

Weight:0.50 lbs.

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Anthropology Cultural Customs & Traditions Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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