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Author:   Margaret Lock ,  Judith Farquhar
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.975kg
ISBN:  

9780822338451

ISBN 10:   0822338459
Pages:   704
Publication Date:   13 April 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

This discerning collection offers a highly creative reading of the development of modern social thought about bodies as means of life in the world. Beyond the Body Proper will be an invaluable classroom companion across a wide range of disciplines in the human sciences. --Jean Comaroff, Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago

""This discerning collection offers a highly creative reading of the development of modern social thought about bodies as means of life in the world. Beyond the Body Proper will be an invaluable classroom companion across a wide range of disciplines in the human sciences.""--Jean Comaroff, Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago

Author Information

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.

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