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Embodying Cape Town

Engaging the City through its Built Edges and Contact Zones

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Shannon M. Jackson

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA

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  • Explores hidden dimensions of relationships among the human body, the built environment, material culture, and history.

  • Challenges dualist interpretations of the history and culture of Cape Town.

  • Draws on a wealth of diverse sources from ethnographic research to aesthetics scholarship.

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Shannon M. Jackson
    Pages 1-15

  3. Making Englishness

    • Shannon M. Jackson
    Pages 17-60

  4. Forgetting District Six

    • Shannon M. Jackson
    Pages 61-101

  5. Redistributing Personhood

    • Shannon M. Jackson
    Pages 103-147

  6. Alternative by Design

    • Shannon M. Jackson
    Pages 149-184

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 185-202
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About this book

This book examines the reciprocity that exists between the body and the urban built environment.  It will draw on archival and ethnographic research as well as an interdisciplinary literature on cultural materialism, semiotics, and aesthetics to challenge dualist interpretations of four different points of historical-material contact in Cape Town, South Africa. Each chapter attends to different groups, social practices, and historical periods, but all share the fundamental questions:  how does material culture reflect the way social agents make meaning through bodily contact with urban built form, and how does such meaning challenge the ways bodies are objectified?  Further, how can we make sense of the historical processes embedded in the objectification of bodies without treating the social and the material, the mental and the physical as separate realities?

 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA

    Shannon M. Jackson

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Shannon M. Jackson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at University of Missouri, Kansas, USA.

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