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Beyond the Body/Mind? Japanese Contemporary Thinkers on Alternative Sociologies of the Body

CHIKAKO OZAWA-DE SILVA

Western sociology of the body, despite its attempt to create a somatic approach to human existence, inevitably shares many of the rationalistic and Cartesian assumptions of wider Western sociology. A contrasting, and in many ways radically different approach is that found in both classical and contemporary Japanese thought. In this article two major contemporary Japanese theorists of the body - Ichikawa Hiroshi and Yuasa Yasuo - are introduced and their work examined as distinctive, and in the West virtually unknown, contributions to body analysis. Their views are briefly contrasted with some of the major themes of Western, and in particular British, sociology of the body and the implications of their work for future investigation of the human body are sketched out.

Key Words: anthropology • embodiment • Ichikawa • Japan • Turner • Yuasa

Body & Society, Vol. 8, No. 2, 21-38 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X02008002002
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