Gebundenes Buch

Beyond the Body Proper

Reading the Anthropology of Material Life

Herausgeber: Lock, Margaret; Farquhar, Judith

Beschreibung

A theoretically sophisticated and cross-disciplinary reader in the anthropology of the body.

Autor

Margaret Lock is Professor of Anthropology and the Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. Her many books include Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death and Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America. Judith Farquhar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China, also published by Duke University Press, and Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1093g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338307
• ISBN-10: 0822338300
• Artikelnr.: 22542461