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Prologue -- The move -- The murders -- The neighbours -- The detectives -- The examiners -- The families -- The 'visitors' -- The neighbours -- The witness -- The newspapers -- The suspects -- The medium -- The book -- The letters -- The hunt -- The science -- The reward -- The theories -- The reassessments -- The house -- The legacy -- The hope -- Afterword.

In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting, yet situated character of the body in society. In turn, these corporeal theories have implications for social relations in an era of new technologies and global market economies.The Body and Everyday Life offers a lively and comprehensive introduction to the study of the body. It use

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: CULTURAL BODIES -- 1 The Body in Culture: Before the Body Project -- Introduction -- Before the body project -- The body as symbol -- Non-verbal communication -- 2 The Body in Culture: The Body Project -- Introduction -- Bodies of difference -- Bodies of discourse -- Technologies of power -- 'Get undressed - but be slim, good-looking and tanned!' -- Transcending the body/mind dualism? -- 3 Ethnography Dances Back -- Introduction -- Varieties of ethnography -- Postmodernism and feminism: 'the awkward relation' -- The researcher as object -- Dance ethnography as a situated reflexive bodily practice -- PART II: DANCE, THE BODY AND CULTURAL THEORY -- 4 The Body in Dance -- Introduction -- 'The sensible and the intelligible' -- The celebration of the visual in ballet -- The sense of touch in contact improvisation -- Bodily sensing in ballet and contact improvisation -- Technical shifts and aesthetic transformations -- Water Study - then and now -- 5 Reconstructing the Dance: In Search of Authenticity? -- Introduction -- The real thing? -- Reconstruction in context -- Varieties of musical authenticity -- Dance as it was -- Dance as it is/dance as it was -- Dance as it is -- 'Performance museums' and lived traditions -- 6 Dance and Difference: Performing/Representing/ Rewriting the Body -- Introduction -- Exoticism, eroticism and auto-eroticism -- Representations of women in western theatrical dance -- Dance and body politics -- Dancing bodies/subjects-in-process -- Dance as a metaphor for 'writing the body' -- 7 Dancing the Night Away: Rave/Club Culture -- Introduction -- The 1950s dance hall experience and the 1990s club experience compared -- From acid house to rave culture -- Dance culture, youth culture and subculture -- From subcultures to club cultures -- Conclusion -- Notes.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- Part I Dance in the City/The City in Dance -- 1 Dancing around Meaning (and the Meaning around Dance) -- 2 Exer(or)cising Power: Black Bodies in the Black Public Sphere -- 3 'Keep Your Great City Paris!' - The Lament of the Empress and other Women -- 4 The Beat Goes On: Trance, Dance and Tribalism in Rave Culture -- 5 Dirt, Noise, Traffic: Contemporary Indian Dance in the Western City -- Modernity, Ethnicity and Hybridity -- Part II Stepping Out -- 6 Ballroom Blitz -- 7 Cyborgs, Nomads and the Raving Feminine -- 8 Madame Smudge, Some Fossils, and Other Missing Links: Unearthing the Ballet Class -- 9 Safe Sets: Women, Dance and 'Communitas' -- Part III Border Country -- 10 Nazism and the Call of the Jitterbug -- 11 Aerobic Dance and the City: Individual and Social Space -- 12 Dance and Erotica: The Construction of the Female Stripper -- 13 Let's Face the Music - and Dance?: Torvill and Dean - 'Champagne on Ice' -- Index.

In his 22 years as an Illinois congressman and in the years since he left office, Paul Findley has fought to eradicate famine, end wars, and eliminate bigotry in U.S. foreign policy. This sweeping political memoir opens with Findley's early days in Pittsfield, Illinois-where he was first elected to Congress in 1960-and chronicles his service during six administrations in Washington. His many accomplishments in Congress include authoring the 1973 War Powers Resolution and the Famine Prevention Program, leading agricultural trade missions to the Soviet Union and China, and entering the names and