Urban body – human body

Abstract

Precising what is a city, from the keys of the urban anthropology, reveals it, the city, as an indissoluble network between the physical, the symbolical and the imaginary. This last dimension is understood as the basis of the particular construction of the city that assumes each subject. Us, urbanitas, represent each city through enclaves that crystallize in the everyday speech, gathered in rhetoric strategies of production. A compressed analysis of the precipitation of some of these rhetorics is exemplified through the capture of a semantic figure that symbolizes the urban images: The figures of the biological, i.e. the body – city.