Beyond the body proper : reading the anthropology of material life / edited by Margaret Lock and Judith Farquhar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lock, Margaret M.

Farquhar, Judith.

Series:

Body, commodity, text

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body.

Human physiology.

Physical anthropology.

Human body--Social aspects.

Medical anthropology.

Physical Description:

688 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

Over the past several 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. They have begun to perceive embodiment as dynamic rather than static, as experiences that vary over time and across the world as they are shaped by discourses, institutions, practices, technologies, and ideologies. What has emerged is a multiplicity of bodies, inviting a great many disciplinary points of view and modes of interpretation. The forty-seven readings presented in this volume range from classic works of social theory, history, and ethnography to more recent investigations into historical and contemporary modes of embodiment.

Beyond the Body Proper includes nine sections conceptually organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. Each section is preceded by interpretive commentary by the volume's editors. Materialist, phenomenological, and feminist perspectives on embodiment appear along with writings on interpretations of pain and the changing meanings of sexual intercourse. Essays on these topics and many others challenge Eurocentric assumptions about the body as they speak to each other and to the most influential contemporary trends in the human sciences.

Contents:

An emergent canon, or putting bodies on the scholarly agenda

Introduction

Friedrich Engels on the part played by labor in the transition from ape to man / Robert Hertz

The pre-eminence of the right hand / Marcel Granet

Right and left in China / Marcel Mauss

Techniques of the body / Victor Turner

Symbols in Ndembu ritual / Terence Turner

The social skin

Philosophical studies, or learning how to think embodiment

Karl Marx and opposition of the materialist and idealist outlook / Friedrich Engels

Walter Benjamin on the mimetic faculty / Maurice Merleau-Ponty

From the phenomenology of perception / Ian Hacking

Making up people / Judith Butler

From bodies that matter / Bruno Latour

Do you believe in reality?

Fundamental processes, or denaturalizing the given

Introduction / E. E. Evans-Pritchard

Time and space / Caroline WalK Bynum

Women mystics and eucharistic devotion in the thirteenth century / Kristofer M. Schipper

On breath / Henry Abelove

Some speculations on the history of "sexual intercourse" during the "long eighteenth century" in England / Margaret Lock

Human body parts as therapeutic tools : contradictory discourses and transformed subjectivities / Anna Lowenhaupt

Tsing Meratus embryology

Everyday life, or exploring the body's times and spaces

Introduction to Part IV / Michel de Certeau

Walking in the city / Michael Taussig

Tactility and distraction / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White

The city, the gaze, and the contaminating touch

Judith Farquhar

Medicinal meals / Nancy K. Miller

Rereading as a woman : the body in practice

Colonized bodies, or analyzing the materiality of domination

Introduction ./ Janice Boddy

Remembering Amal : on birth and the British in Northern Sudan / Susan Pedersen

National bodies, unspeakable acts : the sexual politics of colonial policy making / Stuart Cosgrove

The zoot suit and style warfare

John D. O'Neil

Cooptation and control : the reconstruction of Inuit birth / Patricia Leyland Kaufert, Jean Langford

Dosic bodies/docile bodies

Desires and identities, or negotiating sex and gender

Introduction / John Boswell

Men, beasts, and "nature" / Gregory M. Pflugfelder

Cartographies of desire : male-male sexuality in Japanese discourse / Emily Martin

The egg and the sperm : how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles / Gilles Deleuze

We always make love with worlds / Felix Guattari

Bodies at the margin, or attending to distress and difference

Introduction / Barbara Duden

The woman beneath the skin : a doctor's patients in eighteenth-century Germany / Mariella Pandolfi

Memory within the body : women's narrative and identity in a Southern Italian village / Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Nervoso / Arthur Kleinman

Somatization : the interconnections in Chinese / Joan Kl/nman

Society among culture, depressive experiences and the meanings of pain

Alice Domurat Dreger

Jarring bodies : thoughts on the display of

Unusual anatomies

Capitalist production, or accounting the commodification of bodily life

Introduction / E. P. Thompson

Time, work-discipline, and industrial capitalism / Aihwa Ong

The production of possession : spirits and the multinational corporation in Malaysia / Brad Weiss plastic teeth extraction : the iconography of Haya gastro-sexual affliction

Matthew Schmidt and constructing a "good catch," picking a winner / Lisa Jean Moore

The development of technosemen and the deconstruction of the monolithic male / Margaret Lock

Alienation of body parts and the biopolitics of immortalized cell lines

Knowing systems, or tracking the bodies of the biosciences

Introduction / Shigehisa Kuriyama

Pulse diagnosis in the Greek and Chinese traditions / Rayna Rapp

Real-time fetus : the role of the sonogram in the age of monitored reproduction / Charis Thompson

Quit sniveling, cryo-baby, we'll work out which one's your mama! / Jos van Dijck

Bodyworlds : the art of plastinated cadavers / Keith Wailoo

Inventing the heterozygote : molecular biology, racial identity, and the narratives of sickle-cell disease / Tay-Sachs, and cystic fibrosis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [673]-683) and index.

ISBN:

9780822338307

0822338300

9780822338451

0822338459

OCLC:

71368953