Beyond the body proper : reading the anthropology of material life

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2007 and ©2007

Subject:

Human body
Human physiology
Physical anthropology
Human body - Social aspects
Medical anthropology
Physiology
Medicine - Philosophy

Contributor:

Lock, Margaret M., editor of compilation, contributor
Farquhar, Judith, editor of compilation, contributor

ISBN:

9780822338307, 0822338300, 9780822338451, and 0822338459

Series:

Body, commodity, text

Description:

688 pages ; 25 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 673-683) and index

Contents:

Introduction / Judith Farquhar and Margaret Lock -- Part I. An emergent canon, or putting bodies on the scholarly agenda. On the part played by labor in the transition from ape to man / Friedrich Engels ; The pre-eminence of the right hand : a study in religious polarity / Robert Hertz ; Right and left in China / Marcel Granet ; Techniques of the body / Marcel Mauss ; Symbols in Ndembu ritual / Victor Turner ; The social skin / Terence S. Turner -- Part II. Philosophical studies, or learning how to think embodiment. Opposition of the materialist and idealist outlook / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ; On the mimetic faculty / Walter Benjamin ; From "The Phenomenology of Perception" / Maurice Merleau-Ponty ; Making up people / Ian Hacking ; From "Bodies that Matter" / Judith Butler ; Do you believe in reality? / Bruno Latour -- Part III. Fundamental processes, or denaturalizing the given. Time and space / E.E. Evans-Pritchard ; Women mystics and eucharistic devotion in the thirteenth century / Caroline WalK Bynum ; On breath / Kristofer M. Schipper ; Some speculations on the history of "sexual intercourse" during the "long eighteenth century" in England / Henry Abelove ; Human body parts as therapeutic tools : contradictory discourses and transformed subjectivities / Margaret Lock ; Meratus embryology / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- Part IV. Everyday life, or exploring the body's times and spaces. Walking in the city / Michel de Certeau ; Tactility and distraction / Michael Taussig ; The city : the sewer, the gaze, and the contaminating touch / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White ; Medicinal meals / Judith Farquhar ; Rereading as a woman : the body in practice / Nancy K. Miller -- Part V. Colonized bodies, or analyzing the materiality of domination. Remembering Amal : on birth and the British in Northern Sudan / Janice Boddy ; National bodies, unspeakable acts : the sexual politics of colonial policy making / Susan Pedersen ; The zoot suit and style warfare / Stuart Cosgrove ; Cooptation and control : the reconstruction of Inuit birth / Patricia Leyland Kaufert and John D. O'Neil ; Dosic bodies/docile bodies / Jean Langford -- Part VI. Desires and identities, or negotiating sex and gender. Men, beasts, and "nature"/ John Boswell ; Cartographies of desire : male-male sexuality in Japanese discourse / Gregory M. Pflugfelder ; The egg and the sperm : how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles / Emily Martin ; We always make love with worlds / Gilles Deleuze and Fé lix Guattari -- Part VII. Bodies at the margin, or attending to distress and difference. The woman beneath the skin : a doctor's patients in eighteenth-century Germany / Barbara Duden ; Memory within the body : women's narrative and identity in a Southern Italian village / Mariella Pandolfi ; Nervoso / Nancy Scheper-Hughes ; Somatization : the interconnections in Chinese society among culture, depressive experiences and the meanings of pain / Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman ; Jarring bodies : thoughts on the display of unusual anatomies / Alice Domurat Dreger -- Part VIII. Capitalist production, or accounting the commodification of bodily life. Time, work-discipline, and industrial capitalism / E.P. Thompson ; The production of possession : spirits and the multinational corporation in Malaysia / Aihwa Ong ; Plastic teeth extraction : the iconography of Haya gastro-sexual affliction / Brad Weiss; Constructing a "good catch," picking a winner : the development of technosemen and the deconstruction of the monolithic male / Matthew Schmidt and Lisa Jean Moore ; Alienation of body parts and the biopolitics of immortalized cell lines / Margaret Lock -- Part IX. Knowing systems, or tracking the bodies of the biosciences. Pulse diagnosis in the Greek and Chinese traditions / Shigehisa Kuriyama ; Real-time fetus : the role of the sonogram in the age of monitored reproduction / Rayna Rapp ; Quit sniveling, cryo-baby, we'll work out which one's your mama! / Charis Thompson ; Bodyworlds : the art of plastinated cadavers / José van Dijck ; Inventing the heterozygote : molecular biology, racial identity, and the narratives of sickle-cell disease, Tay-Sachs, and cystic fibrosis / Keith Wailoo

Summary:

Over the decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a 'body proper': a singular, discrete biological organism with an individual psyche. This text includes sections conceptually organised around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

HM636 .B48 2007

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