Spatial practices and bodily experience: sennett and the city

Authors

  • Marta Mega de Andrade Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas; Departamento de História

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0101-47141996000100020

Keywords:

História Urbana, História do corpo, Corpo e espaço, Urban History, History of the body, Body and space

Abstract

This essay focuses on Richard Sennett's Flesh and stone. The body and the cify in Western dvilization. It stresses some of lhe central questions in Sennett's baok: the relationship between a global history and a local perspective; .uses" or .ways of doing" as ways of producing. Although not Sennett's main concern, implications of these questions in lhe field of material culture studies are investigated, especially the possibility of a discursive paradigm in the analysis of spatial practices and bodily experiences.

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Published

1996-01-01

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Reviews

How to Cite

ANDRADE, Marta Mega de. Spatial practices and bodily experience: sennett and the city . Anais do Museu Paulista: História e Cultura Material, São Paulo, v. 4, n. 1, p. 291–308, 1996. DOI: 10.1590/S0101-47141996000100020. Disponível em: https://periodicos.usp.br/anaismp/article/view/5345.. Acesso em: 17 may. 2024.