Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a "body proper" a singular, discrete biological organism with an individual psyche. They have begun to perceive embodiment as dynamic rather than static, as experiences that vary over time and across the world as they are shaped by discourses, institutions, practices, technologies, and ideologies. What has emerged is a multiplicity of bodies, inviting a great many disciplinary points of view and modes of interpretation. The forty-seven readings presented in this volume range from classic works of social theory, history, and ethnography to more recent investigations into historical and contemporary modes of embodiment.
Beyond the Body Proper includes nine sections conceptually organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. Each section is preceded by interpretive commentary by the volume's editors. Within the collection are articles and book excerpts focused on bodies using tools and participating in rituals, on bodies walking and eating, and on the female circumcision controversy, as well as pieces on medical classifications, spirit possession, the commodification of body parts, in vitro fertilization, and an artist/anatomist's "plastination" of cadavers for display. Materialist, phenomenological, and feminist perspectives on embodiment appear along with writings on interpretations of pain and the changing meanings of sexual intercourse. Essays on these topics and many others challenge Eurocentric assumptions about the body as they speak to each other and to the most influential contemporary trends in the human sciences.
With selections by: Henry Abelove, Walter Benjamin, Janice Boddy, John Boswell, Judith Butler, Caroline Walker Bynum, Stuart Cosgrove, Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze, Alice Domurat Dreger, Barbara Duden, Friedrich Engels, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Judith Farquhar, Marcel Granet, Felix Guattari, Ian Hacking, Robert Hertz, Patricia Leyland Kaufert, Arthur Kleinman, Shigehisa Kuriyama, Jean Langford, Bruno Latour, Margaret Lock, Emily Martin, Karl Marx, Marcel Mauss, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Nancy K. Miller, Lisa Jean Moore, John D. O'Neil, Aihwa Ong, Mariella Pandolfi, Susan Pedersen, Gregory M. Pflugfelder, Rayna Rapp, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Kristofer Schipper, Matthew Schmidt, Peter Stallybrass, Michael Taussig, Charis Thompson, E.P. Thompson, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Victor Turner, Terence Turner, Jose van Dijck, Keith Wailoo, Brad Weiss, Allon White
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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.
"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
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...
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