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This introduction serves as a review of the keywords, analytic concepts, and theoretical frameworks that make up the book’s case studies situated in Cape Town, South Africa. It also provides a synopsis of each of the four chapters. Select theorists are assembled in the review for their contributions to challenges to dualisms pervasive in the social sciences, particularly as these apply to body, city, and material world. With interconnections among body, city, and material as the fundamental premise of the book, the introduction further examines embodiment as a paradigm. Anthropologists can deploy embodiment as a way to empirically trouble pervasive dualisms, such as subject and object, human and non-human. This book will use the paradigm to re-examine pervasive problems in the study of South African society and history, particularly as these frame and inform understandings of one of its oldest and largest cities, Cape Town.
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Jackson, S.M. (2017). Introduction. In: Embodying Cape Town. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58711-4_1
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