Between Meaning and Matter
by Anne Marie Champagne – Tracing the thematization of culture and the body across modern, postmodern, and neo-modern sociological thought, this chapter explores the possibility of developing a meaning-centered, strong cultural sociology of the body and embodiment, one that approaches body and embodiment as constituting a uniquely hermeneutic situation …
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 …