Beyond the Body Proper

Reading the Anthropology of Material Life
Herausgeber: Lock, Margaret; Farquhar, Judith

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on the Format of the Book ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction / Judith Farquhar and Margaret Lock 1
I. An Emergent Canon, or Putting Bodies on the Scholarly Agenda
Introduction 19
On the Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man / Friedrich
Engels 25
The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in Religious Polarity / Robert
Hertz 30
Right and Left in China / Marcel Granet 41
Techniques of the Body / Marcel Mauss 50
Symbols in Ndembu Ritual / Victor Turner 69
The Social Skin / Terence S. Turner 83
II. Philosophical Studies, or Learning How to Think Embodiment
Introduction 107
Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook / Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels 113
On the Mimetic Faculty / Walter Benjamin 130
from The Phenomenology of Perception / Maurice Merleau-Ponty 133
Making Up People / Ian Hacking 150
from Bodies That Matter / Judith Butler 164
Do You Believe in Reality? / Bruno Latour 176
III. Fundamental Processes, or Denaturalizing the Given
Introduction 187
Time and Space / E. E. Evans-Pritchard 193
Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century / Caroline
Walker Bynum 202
On Breath / Kristofer M. Schipper 213
Some Speculations on the History of “Sexual Intercourse” during the “Long
Eighteenth Century” in England / Henry Abelove 217
Human Body Parts as Therapeutic Tools: Contradictory Discourses and
Transformed Subjectivities / Margaret Lock 224
Meratus Embryology / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 232
IV. Everyday Life, or Exploring the Body’s Times and Spaces
Introduction 241
Walking in the City / Michel de Certeau 249
Tactility and Distraction / Michael Taussig 259
The City: The Sewer, the Gaze, and the Contaminating Touch / Peter
Stallybrass and Allon White 266
Medicinal Meals / Judith Farquhar 286
Rereading as a Woman: The Body in Practice / Nancy K. Miller 297
V. Colonized Bodies, or Analyzing the Materiality of Domination
Introduction 307
Remembering Amal: On Birth and the British in Northern Sudan / Janice Boddy
315
National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Policy
Making / Susan Pedersen 330
The Zoot Suit and Style Warfare / Stuart Cosgrove 347
Cooptation and Control: The Reconstruction of Inuit Birth / Patricia
Leyland Kaufert and John D. O’Neil 359
Dosic Bodies/Docile Bodies / Jean Langford 376
VI. Desires and Identities, or Negotiating Sex and Gender
Introduction 383
Men, Beasts, and “Nature” / John Boswell 389
Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse /
Gregory M. Pflugfelder 400
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on
Stereotypical Male-Female Roles / Emily Martin 417
We Always Make Love with Worlds / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 428
VII. Bodies at the Margin, or Attending to Distress and Difference
Introduction 435
The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century
Germany / Barbara Duden 443
Memory within the Body: Women’s Narrative and Identity in a Southern
Italian Village / Mariella Pandolfi 451
Nervoso / Nancy Scheper-Hughes 459
Somatization: The Interconnections in Chinese Society among Culture,
Depressive Experiences, and the Meanings of Pain / Arthur Kleinman and Joan
Kleinman 468
Jarring Bodies: Thoughts on the Display of Unusual Anatomies / Alice
Domurat Dreger 475
VIII. Capitalist Production, or Accounting the Commodification of Bodily
Life
Introduction 489
Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism / E. P. Thompson 495
The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in
Malaysia / Aihwa Ong 512
Constructing a “Good Catch,” Picking a Winner: The Development of
Technosemen and the Deconstruction of the Monolithic Male / Matthew Schmidt
and Lisa Jean Moore 550
Alienation of Body Parts and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines /
Margaret Lock 567
IX. Knowing Systems, or Tracking the Bodies of the Biosciences
Introduction 587
Pulse Diagnosis in the Greek and Chinese Traditions / Shigehisa Kuriyama
595
Real-Time Fetus: The Role of the Sonogram in the Age of Monitored
Reproduction / Rayna Rapp 608
Quit Sniveling, Cryo-Baby, We’ll Work Out Which One’s Your Mama! / Charis
Thompson 623
Bodyworlds: The Art of Plastinated Cadavers / Jose van Dijck 640
Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the
Narratives of Sickle-Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis / Keith
Wailoo 658
Bibliography 673
Citations for Text Selections 679
Index 685