Cover of Social Bodies

Book 2007

Social Bodies

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Published
2007
  • Anthropology
  • Population & demography
  • Symbolic aspects
  • Political Science
  • Government policy
  • Social aspects
  • Italy
  • Politics - Current Events

IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY, the status of the "social" as an object of scientific knowledge (including anthropological knowledge) and of technical interventions is so familiar as to risk being taken for granted.