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A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment

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Frances E. Mascia-Lees
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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

Notes on Contributors
Synopses
Introduction
CHAPTER 2AFFECT INTRODUCTION
AUTOETHNOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION
IMPAIRMENT
SENSING THEBODY CHAPTER 16KINSHIP MAMA CARLAS ANGER
INTRODUCTION
CONCLUSION
RACIALIZATION
CHAPTER25THE SENSES
SENSORIAL MEMORY
CHAPTER 27TASTINGFOOD THE FUNCTIONOFTASTE
TRANSNATIONALISM
VIRTUALITY
Index

MIDDLE EASTERNMASCULINITIES ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION TREATMENT IN MEXICO

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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 2001-2006, is a Founder and current Member of the Board of Anthropology Now, and an International Scholar of the Open Society Institute. 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).

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