Beyond the body proper : reading the anthropology of material life

Author(s)

• Lock, Margaret M.
• Farquhar, Judith

Bibliographic Information

Beyond the body proper : reading the anthropology of material life

edited by Margaret Lock and Judith Farquhar

（Body, commodity, text）

Duke University Press, 2007

• : pbk
• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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. Within the collection are articles and book excerpts focused on bodies using tools and participating in rituals, on bodies walking and eating, and on the female circumcision controversy, as well as pieces on medical classifications, spirit possession, the commodification of body parts, in vitro fertilization, and an artist/anatomist's "plastination" of cadavers for display. 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. With selections by: Henry Abelove, Walter Benjamin, Janice Boddy, John Boswell, Judith Butler, Caroline Walker Bynum, Stuart Cosgrove, Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze, Alice Domurat Dreger, Barbara Duden, Friedrich Engels, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Judith Farquhar, Marcel Granet, Felix Guattari, Ian Hacking, Robert Hertz, Patricia Leyland Kaufert, Arthur Kleinman, Shigehisa Kuriyama, Jean Langford, Bruno Latour, Margaret Lock, Emily Martin, Karl Marx, Marcel Mauss, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Nancy K. Miller, Lisa Jean Moore, John D. O'Neil, Aihwa Ong, Mariella Pandolfi, Susan Pedersen, Gregory M. Pflugfelder, Rayna Rapp, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Kristofer Schipper, Matthew Schmidt, Peter Stallybrass, Michael Taussig, Charis Thompson, E.P. Thompson, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Victor Turner, Terence Turner, Jose van Dijck, Keith Wailoo, Brad Weiss, Allon White

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

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Details

• NCID: BA82116995
• ISBN:
  • 9780822338451
  • 9780822338307
• LCCN: 2006028687
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Durham
• Pages/Volumes: 688 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HM636
  • DC22 : 306.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Body, Human
  • LCSH : Human physiology
  • LCSH : Physical anthropology
  • LCSH : Body, Human -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Medical anthropology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA29039919