A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment ( Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology )

Publication series ：Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology

Author： Frances E. Mascia-Lees  

Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc‎

Publication year： 2011

E-ISBN: 9781444340457

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781405189491

Subject： C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology

Language： ENG

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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

Chapter

Contents

pp.：  1 – 9

Notes on Contributors

pp.：  9 – 12

Synopses

pp.：  12 – 19

Introduction

pp.：  19 – 29

1. AESTHETICS: Aesthetic Embodiment and Commodity Capitalism

pp.：  29 – 31

2. AFFECT: Learning Affect/Embodying Race

pp.：  31 – 52

3. AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: When I Was A Girl (Notes on Contrivance)

pp.：  52 – 74

4. BIOETHICS: Embodied Ethics: From the Body as Specimen and Spectacle to the Body as Patient

pp.：  74 – 100

5. BIOPOWER: Biopower and Cyberpower in Online News

pp.：  100 – 114

6. BODILINESS: The Body Beyond the Body: Social, Material and Spiritual Dimensions of Bodiliness

pp.：  114 – 130

7. COLONIALISM: Bodies under Colonialism

pp.：  130 – 147

8. CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY: Embodiment: Agency, Sexual Difference, and Illness

pp.：  147 – 165

9. DEAD BODIES: The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics

pp.：  165 – 185

10. DISSECTION: The Body in Tatters: Dismemberment, Dissection, and the Return of the Repressed

pp.：  185 – 200

11. (TRANS)GENDER: Tomboi Embodiment

pp.：  200 – 235

12. GENOMICS: Embodying Molecular Genomics

pp.：  235 – 251

13. HAPTICS: Haptic Creativity and the Mid-embodiments of Experimental Life

pp.：  251 – 267

14. HYBRIDITY: Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific Imaginary

pp.：  267 – 290

15. IMPAIRMENT: Sporting Bodies: Sensuous, Lived, and Impaired

pp.：  290 – 304

16. KINSHIP: Bodily Betrayal: Love and Anger in the Time of Epigenetics

pp.：  304 – 320

17. MASCULINITIES: The Male Reproductive Body

pp.：  320 – 335

18. MEDIATED BODIES: Fetal Bodies, Undone

pp.：  335 – 348

19. MODIFICATION: Blurring the Divide: Human and Animal Body Modifications

pp.：  348 – 366

20. NEOLIBERALISM: Embodying and Affecting Neoliberalism

pp.：  366 – 381

21. PAIN: Pain and Bodies

pp.：  381 – 398

22. PERSONHOOD: Embodiment and Personhood

pp.：  398 – 416

23. POST-SOCIALISM: Troubling the Reproduction of the Nation

pp.：  416 – 431

24. RACIALIZATION: How To Do Races With Bodies

pp.：  431 – 447

25. THE SENSES: Polysensoriality

pp.：  447 – 463

26. SENSORIAL MEMORY: Embodied Legacies of Genocide

pp.：  463 – 479

27. TASTING FOOD: Tasting between the Laboratory and the Clinic

pp.：  479 – 495

28. TRANSNATIONALISM: Bodies-in-Motion: Experiences of Momentum in Transnational Surgery

pp.：  495 – 509

29. VIRTUALITY: Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, Cypherg

pp.：  509 – 532

Index

pp.：  532 – 549

LastPages

pp.：  549 – 557

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