A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment

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Frances E. Mascia-Lees
John Wiley & Sons, Mar 29, 2011 - Social Science - 560 pages
A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment offers original essays that examine historical and contemporary approaches to conceptualizations of the body.

  • In this ground-breaking work on the body and embodiment, the latest scholarship from anthropology and related social science fields is presented, providing new insights on body politics and the experience of the body
  • Original chapters cover historical and contemporary approaches and highlight new research frameworks
  • Reflects the increasing importance of embodiment and its ethnographic contexts within anthropology
  • Highlights the increasing emphasis on examining the production of scientific, technological, and medical expertise in studying bodies and embodiment
 

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Contents

Introduction
1
AFFECT
24
AUTOETHNOGRAPHY
46
BIOETHICS
72
BIOPOWER
86
BODILINESS
102
COLONIALISM
119
CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY
137
MASCULINITIES
307
MEDIATED BODIES
320
MODIFICATION
338
NEOLIBERALISM
353
PAIN
370
PERSONHOOD
388
POSTSOCIALISM
403
RACIALIZATION
419

DEAD BODIES
157
DISSECTION
172
TRANSGENDER
207
GENOMICS
223
HAPTICS
239
HYBRIDITY
262
IMPAIRMENT
276
KINSHIP
292
THE SENSES
435
SENSORIAL MEMORY
451
TASTING FOOD
467
TRANSNATIONALISM
481
VIRTUALITY
504
Index
521
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About the author (2011)

Frances E. Mascia-Lees is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She was Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist from 2001 to 2006, is a Founder and current Member of the Board of Anthropology Now, and was an International Scholar of the Open Society Institute from 2007 to 2010. She is author of numerous publications including Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World: Toward an Engaged Cultural Criticism (2000), Women’s Realities, Women’s Choice, (3rd Edition, 2005) and Gender and Difference in a Globalizing World: 21st Century Anthropology (2011).

Bibliographic information

TitleA Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
EditorFrances E. Mascia-Lees
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1444340468, 9781444340464
Length560 pages
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