{"product_id":"beyond-the-body-proper-9780822338451","title":"Beyond the Body Proper","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes nine sections organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. This title features 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, and spirit possession.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This discerning collection offers a highly creative reading of the development of modern social thought about bodies as means of life in the world. \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Body Proper\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e“[E]xpansive and provocative. . . . This volume offers an indispensable resource for scholars and an excellent reader for courses on medical anthropology, anthropology of the body, and social theory.” -- Sarah Pinto * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on the Format of the Book ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Judith Farquhar and Margaret Lock 1\u003cbr\u003e I. An Emergent Canon, or Putting Bodies on the Scholarly Agenda \u003cbr\u003e Introduction 19\u003cbr\u003e On the Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man \/ Friedrich Engels 25\u003cbr\u003e The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in Religious Polarity \/ Robert Hertz 30\u003cbr\u003e Right and Left in China \/ Marcel Granet 41\u003cbr\u003e Techniques of the Body \/ Marcel Mauss 50\u003cbr\u003e Symbols in Ndembu Ritual \/ Victor Turner 69\u003cbr\u003e The Social Skin \/ Terence S. Turner 83\u003cbr\u003e II. Philosophical Studies, or Learning How to Think Embodiment \u003cbr\u003e Introduction 107\u003cbr\u003e Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook \/ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 113\u003cbr\u003e On the Mimetic Faculty \/ Walter Benjamin 130\u003cbr\u003e from \u003ci\u003eThe Phenomenology of Perception \u003c\/i\u003e\/ Maurice Merleau-Ponty 133\u003cbr\u003e Making Up People \/ Ian Hacking 150\u003cbr\u003e from \u003ci\u003eBodies That Matter \u003c\/i\u003e\/ Judith Butler 164\u003cbr\u003e Do You Believe in Reality? \/ Bruno Latour 176\u003cbr\u003e III. Fundamental Processes, or Denaturalizing the Given \u003cbr\u003e Introduction 187\u003cbr\u003e Time and Space \/ E. E. Evans-Pritchard 193\u003cbr\u003e Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century \/ Caroline Walker Bynum 202\u003cbr\u003e On Breath \/ Kristofer M. Schipper 213\u003cbr\u003e Some Speculations on the History of “Sexual Intercourse” during the “Long Eighteenth Century” in England \/ Henry Abelove 217\u003cbr\u003e Human Body Parts as Therapeutic Tools: Contradictory Discourses and Transformed Subjectivities \/ Margaret Lock 224\u003cbr\u003e Meratus Embryology \/ Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 232\u003cbr\u003e IV. Everyday Life, or Exploring the Body’s Times and Spaces \u003cbr\u003e Introduction 241\u003cbr\u003e Walking in the City \/ Michel de Certeau 249\u003cbr\u003e Tactility and Distraction \/ Michael Taussig 259\u003cbr\u003e The City: The Sewer, the Gaze, and the Contaminating Touch \/ Peter Stallybrass and Allon White 266\u003cbr\u003e Medicinal Meals \/ Judith Farquhar 286\u003cbr\u003e Rereading as a Woman: The Body in Practice \/ Nancy K. Miller 297\u003cbr\u003e V. Colonized Bodies, or Analyzing the Materiality of Domination \u003cbr\u003e Introduction 307\u003cbr\u003e Remembering Amal: On Birth and the British in Northern Sudan \/ Janice Boddy 315\u003cbr\u003e National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Policy Making \/ Susan Pedersen 330\u003cbr\u003e The Zoot Suit and Style Warfare \/ Stuart Cosgrove 347\u003cbr\u003e Cooptation and Control: The Reconstruction of Inuit Birth \/ Patricia Leyland Kaufert and John D. O’Neil 359\u003cbr\u003e Dosic Bodies\/Docile Bodies \/ Jean Langford 376\u003cbr\u003e VI. Desires and Identities, or Negotiating Sex and Gender \u003cbr\u003e Introduction 383\u003cbr\u003e Men, Beasts, and “Nature” \/ John Boswell 389\u003cbr\u003e Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse \/ Gregory M. Pflugfelder 400\u003cbr\u003e The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles \/ Emily Martin 417\u003cbr\u003e We Always Make Love with Worlds \/ Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 428\u003cbr\u003e VII. Bodies at the Margin, or Attending to Distress and Difference \u003cbr\u003e Introduction 435\u003cbr\u003e The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany \/ Barbara Duden 443\u003cbr\u003e Memory within the Body: Women’s Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village \/ Mariella Pandolfi 451\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNervoso \u003c\/i\u003e\/ Nancy Scheper-Hughes 459\u003cbr\u003e Somatization: The Interconnections in Chinese Society among Culture, Depressive Experiences, and the Meanings of Pain \/ Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman 468\u003cbr\u003e Jarring Bodies: Thoughts on the Display of Unusual Anatomies \/ Alice Domurat Dreger 475\u003cbr\u003e VIII. Capitalist Production, or Accounting the Commodification of Bodily Life \u003cbr\u003e Introduction 489\u003cbr\u003e Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism \/ E. P. Thompson 495\u003cbr\u003e The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia \/ Aihwa Ong 512\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e Alienation of Body Parts and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines \/ Margaret Lock 567\u003cbr\u003e IX. Knowing Systems, or Tracking the Bodies of the Biosciences \u003cbr\u003e Introduction 587\u003cbr\u003e Pulse Diagnosis in the Greek and Chinese Traditions \/ Shigehisa Kuriyama 595\u003cbr\u003e Real-Time Fetus: The Role of the Sonogram in the Age of Monitored Reproduction \/ Rayna Rapp 608\u003cbr\u003e Quit Sniveling, Cryo-Baby, We’ll Work Out Which One’s Your Mama! \/ Charis Thompson 623\u003cbr\u003e Bodyworlds: The Art of Plastinated Cadavers \/ Jose van Dijck 640\u003cbr\u003e Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the Narratives of Sickle-Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis \/ Keith Wailoo 658\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 673\u003cbr\u003e Citations for Text Selections 679\u003cbr\u003e Index 685","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406043128151,"sku":"9780822338451","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822338451.jpg?v=1730494346","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-the-body-proper-9780822338451","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}