Beyond the Body Proper - Reading the Anthropology of Material Life

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

List 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

About the author

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.

Summary

Over the years, 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 book includes nine sections conceptually organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret (EDT)/ Farquhar Lock, Margaret Farquhar Lock
• Assisted by: Judith Farquhar (Editor), Margaret Lock (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.04.2007
• EAN: 9780822338307
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3830-7
• No. of pages: 704
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 44 mm
• Series: Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology