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A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment
Frances Mascia-Lees has compiled a breathtakingly comprehensive volume on the anthropology of the body. The chapters are creative, sometimes daring, and always insightful. The collection takes our comprehension of the body in social and cultural life to a new level. The volume will be read and debated for many years to come.
Paul Stoller, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Frances E. Mascia-Lees (Edited by), F Mascia–Lees (Author)
9781405189491, Wiley
Hardback, published 18 April 2011
560 pages
24.9 x 17.8 x 3.3 cm, 0.998 kg
“Overall, this is a rich and valuable resource which offers great insight into bodies, and anthropological research on bodies, today.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29 April 2014) “This wonderful companion to embodiment and body-studies covers twenty nine different aspects from our daily embodied lives.” (The Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 1 May 2012)
A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment offers original essays that examine historical and contemporary approaches to conceptualizations of the body.
Notes on Contributors x Synopses xvii Introduction 1 1. AESTHETICS 3 Aesthetic Embodiment and Commodity Capitalism 2. AFFECT 24 Learning Affect/Embodying Race 3. AUTOETHNOGRAPHY 46 When I Was A Girl (Notes on Contrivance) 4. BIOETHICS 72 Embodied Ethics: From the Body as Specimen and Spectacle to the Body as Patient 5. BIOPOWER 86 6. BODILINESS 102 The Body Beyond the Body: Social, Material and Spiritual Dimensions of Bodiliness 7. COLONIALISM 119 Bodies under Colonialism 8. CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY 137 Embodiment: Agency, Sexual Difference, and Illness 9. DEAD BODIES 157 The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics 10. DISSECTION 172 The Body in Tatters: Dismemberment, Dissection, and the Return of the Repressed 11. (TRANS)GENDER 207 Tomboi Embodiment 12. GENOMICS 223 Embodying Molecular Genomics 13. HAPTICS 239 Haptic Creativity and the Mid-embodiments of Experimental Life 14. HYBRIDITY 262 Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific Imaginary 15. IMPAIRMENT 276 Sporting Bodies: Sensuous, Lived, and Impaired 16. KINSHIP 292 Bodily Betrayal: Love and Anger in the Time of Epigenetics 17. MASCULINITIES 307 The Male Reproductive Body 18. MEDIATED BODIES 320 Fetal Bodies, Undone 19. MODIFICATION 338 Blurring the Divide: Human and Animal Body Modifications 20. NEOLIBERALISM 353 Embodying and Affecting Neoliberalism 21. PAIN 370 Pain and Bodies 22. PERSONHOOD 388 Embodiment and Personhood 23. POST-SOCIALISM 403 Troubling the Reproduction of the Nation 24. RACIALIZATION 419 How To Do Races With Bodies 25. THE SENSES 435 Polysensoriality 26. SENSORIAL MEMORY 451 Embodied Legacies of Genocide 27. TASTING FOOD 467 Tasting between the Laboratory and the Clinic 28. TRANSNATIONALISM 481 Bodies-in-Motion: Experiences of Momentum in Transnational Surgery 29. VIRTUALITY 504 Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, Cypherg Index 521
Frances E. Mascia-Lees
Frances E. Mascia-Lees
Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas
Roger N. Lancaster
Nora L. Jones
Biopower and Cyberpower in Online News
Dominic Boyer
Terence Turner
Janice Boddy
Thomas Csordas
Rocío Magaña
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Evelyn Blackwood
Margaret Lock
Natasha Myers and Joe Dumit
Lesley Sharp
P. David Howe
Emily Yates-Doerr
Emily Wentzell and Marcia C. Inhorn
Lynn M. Morgan
Margo DeMello
Carla Freeman
Jean E. Jackson
Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
Michele Rivkin-Fish
Didier Fassin
David Howes
Carol A. Kidron
Annemarie Mol
Emily McDonald
Tom Boellstorff
Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]
