Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: The forgotten body -- Chapter I The knowledge of the body -- Chapter II The Corposphere -- Chapter III Social imaginaries, borders, and limits of the semiotics of the body -- Chapter IV Body modalities: Space and movement, rituals and eroticism -- Chapter V Body, aesthetics, and hedonism -- Chapter VI Body and ritual: The structure of the gesture in public ceremonies -- Chapter VII Myth, body, and beauty: Rituals of the Misses -- Chapter VIII Rite and discourse: Body, disease, and death in two funeral texts -- Chapter IX "Your Body is the Message" -- Chapter X Body and Identity: Space, places, and territories -- References -- Index