Completes Harre's (psychology, Georgetown U.) trilogy on ways of being human. Explores the roles our bodies play in our lives, arguing that such roles are determined less by organic functioning than by cultural conventions and social meanings. Considers the metaphysics of how we use our bodies to fix our identity; evaluations of norms and deviations; and the semantics of the symbolic meanings of our bodies. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.