This exciting collection opens up many new conversations on BodyPlace and introduces new theories of embodied places and the placing of bodies. Extensive introductory and concluding sections guide students through the key debates and themes. Places Through the Body draws on a wide range of contemporary examples and creative ideas to address such topics as: * How racist ideologies are embedded in modern architechtural discourse and practice * How urban spaces make bodies disabled * How the seemingly virtual worlds of knowledge and technology are embodied * How...
This exciting collection opens up many new conversations on BodyPlace and introduces new theories of embodied places and the placing of bodies. E...
This exciting collection opens up many new conversations on BodyPlace and introduces new theories of embodied places and the placing of bodies. Extensive introductory and concluding sections guide students through the key debates and themes. Places Through the Body draws on a wide range of contemporary examples and creative ideas to address such topics as: * How racist ideologies are embedded in modern architechtural discourse and practice * How urban spaces make bodies disabled * How the seemingly virtual worlds of knowledge and technology are embodied * How...
This exciting collection opens up many new conversations on BodyPlace and introduces new theories of embodied places and the placing of bodies. E...
The monumental palace of Kano, Nigeria, was built circa 1500 and is today inhabited by more than one thousand persons. Historically, its secluded interior housed hundreds of concubines whose role in the politics, economics, and culture of Kano city-state has been largely overlooked. In this pioneering work, Heidi J. Nast demonstrates how human-geographical methods can tell us much about a site like the palace, a place bereft of archaeological work or relevant primary sources. Drawing on extensive ethnographic work and mapping data, "Concubines and Power presents new evidence that palace...
The monumental palace of Kano, Nigeria, was built circa 1500 and is today inhabited by more than one thousand persons. Historically, its secluded inte...
Drawing on her field work in the palace between 1988 and 2003, Nast (international studies, DePaul U., Chicago) presents a historical geographical account of royal concubinage in the monumental palace of Kano, Nigeria, built about 1500 and today inhabited by over a thousand people. Her study demonstrates how human geographical methods can be used i
Drawing on her field work in the palace between 1988 and 2003, Nast (international studies, DePaul U., Chicago) presents a historical geographical acc...