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| Authors | Anne Marie Champagne and Asia Friedman |
| Abstract | In this introduction to Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter, co-editors Anne Marie Champagne and Asia Friedman establish the volume’s focal metaphor of interpretation, summarizing its unique benefits and challenges for how social scientists understand and study body and embodiment. Highlighting the social, material, and disciplinary conditions that structure modes of attending, feeling, and thinking about the body in both lay experience and social-scientific analysis, the chapter brings renewed theoretical and methodological light to processes of interpretation in the social construction of the body across different theoretical traditions. Noting how the use of interpretation as a metaphor for analyzing body and embodiment can illuminate the interdependency between meaning and matter, the chapter likewise directs one to consider how and why some aspects or details of the body and embodiment emerge as more notable or important than others, thus revealing how patterns of social, moral, and political salience generate the attentional topography of the body’s symbolic and material dimensions. |
| Tags / Keywords | attention, body and embodiment, interpretation, materiality, meaning, metaphor, moral salience, social construction of the body, social patterns, theory |
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