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

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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