A Brief History of Nakedness by Philip Carr-Gomm
Confrontations with naked human bodies can provoke powerful, and often contradictory, impressions and feelings. Mystics have embraced nudity to get closer to God or to some other remote power. This book traces our preoccupation with nudity in three distinct areas of human endeavour: religion, politics and popular culture.
""A Brief History of Nakedness" by Philip Carr-Gomm is full of surprising reasons people get naked, and funny ones, and practical ones, and sensual ones, and many moreWhat might have seemed a topic that was too simple to repay extended thought turns out to have many subtle (and not-so-subtle) facets... This book is as fun as history gets."--"Dispatch" (Columbus, MS) -Rob Hardy
Philip Carr-Gomm is a writer and psychologist. His many books include Sacred Places (2008), Druid Mysteries (2002) and The Book of English Magic (with Richard Heygate, 2009).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781861896476 |
| ISBN 10 | 1861896476 |
| Title | A Brief History of Nakedness |
| Author | Philip Carr-Gomm |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 2010-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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