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Margaret Lock is Professor of Anthropology and the Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. Her many books include Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death and Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America.

Judith Farquhar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China, also published by Duke University Press, and Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine.

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"This discerning collection offers a highly creative reading of the development of modern social thought about bodies as means of life in the world. "Beyond the Body Proper" 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

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BEYOND THE BODY PROPER

Duke University Press

Contents

Note on the Format of the Book.......................................................................................................................................................ixAcknowledgments......................................................................................................................................................................xiJudith Farquhar and Margaret Lock: Introduction......................................................................................................................................1Introduction.........................................................................................................................................................................19Friedrich Engels: On the Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man......................................................................................................25Robert Hertz: The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in Religious Polarity......................................................................................................30Marcel Granet: Right and Left in China...............................................................................................................................................41Marcel Mauss: Techniques of the Body.................................................................................................................................................50Victor Turner: Symbols in Ndembu Ritual..............................................................................................................................................69Terence S. Turner: The Social Skin...................................................................................................................................................83Introduction.........................................................................................................................................................................107Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook...................................................................................................113Walter Benjamin: On the Mimetic Faculty..............................................................................................................................................130Maurice Merleau-Ponty: from The Phenomenology of Perception..........................................................................................................................133Ian Hacking: Making Up People........................................................................................................................................................150Judith Butler: from Bodies That Matter...............................................................................................................................................164Bruno Latour: Do You Believe in Reality?.............................................................................................................................................176Introduction.........................................................................................................................................................................187E. E. Evans-Pritchard: Time and Space................................................................................................................................................193Caroline Walker Bynum: Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century..............................................................................................202Kristofer M. Schipper: On Breath.....................................................................................................................................................213Henry Abelove: Some Speculations on the History of "Sexual Intercourse" during the "Long Eighteenth Century" in England..............................................................217Margaret Lock: Human Body Parts as Therapeutic Tools: Contradictory Discourses and Transformed Subjectivities........................................................................224Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: Meratus Embryology............................................................................................................................................232Introduction.........................................................................................................................................................................241Michel de Certeau: Walking in the City...............................................................................................................................................249Michael Taussig: Tactility and Distraction...........................................................................................................................................259Peter Stallybrass and Allon White: The City: The Sewer, the Gaze, and the Contaminating Touch........................................................................................266Judith Farquhar: Medicinal Meals.....................................................................................................................................................286Nancy K. Miller: Rereading as a Woman: The Body in Practice..........................................................................................................................297Introduction.........................................................................................................................................................................307Janice Boddy: Remembering Amal: On Birth and the British in Northern Sudan...........................................................................................................315Susan Pedersen: National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Policy Making.....................................................................................330Stuart Cosgrove: The Zoot Suit and Style Warfare.....................................................................................................................................347Patricia Leyland Kaufert and John D. O'Neil: Cooptation and Control: The Reconstruction of Inuit Birth...............................................................................359Jean Langford: Dosic Bodies/Docile Bodies............................................................................................................................................376Introduction.........................................................................................................................................................................383John Boswell: Men, Beasts, and "Nature"..............................................................................................................................................389Gregory M. Pflugfelder: Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse...........................................................................................400Emily Martin: The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical MaleFemale Roles..................................................................417Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari: We Always Make Love with...