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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
Contents
Notes on Contributors x
Synopses xvii
Introduction 1
Frances E. Mascia-Lees
1. AESTHETICS 3
Aesthetic Embodiment and Commodity Capitalism
Frances E. Mascia-Lees
2. AFFECT 24
Learning Affect/Embodying Race
Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas
3. AUTOETHNOGRAPHY 46
When I Was A Girl (Notes on Contrivance)
Roger N. Lancaster
4. BIOETHICS 72
Embodied Ethics: From the Body as Specimen and Spectacle to the Body as Patient
Nora L. Jones
5. BIOPOWER 86
Biopower and Cyberpower in Online News
Dominic Boyer
6. BODILINESS 102
The Body Beyond the Body: Social, Material and Spiritual Dimensions of Bodiliness
Terence Turner
7. COLONIALISM 119
Bodies under Colonialism
Janice Boddy
8. CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY 137
Embodiment: Agency, Sexual Difference, and Illness
Thomas Csordas
9. DEAD BODIES 157
The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics
Rocío Magaña
10. DISSECTION 172
The Body in Tatters: Dismemberment, Dissection, and the Return of the Repressed
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
11. (TRANS)GENDER 207
Tomboi Embodiment
Evelyn Blackwood
12. GENOMICS 223
Embodying Molecular Genomics
Margaret Lock
13. HAPTICS 239
Haptic Creativity and the Mid-embodiments of Experimental Life
Natasha Myers and Joe Dumit
14. HYBRIDITY 262
Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific Imaginary
Lesley Sharp
15. IMPAIRMENT 276
Sporting Bodies: Sensuous, Lived, and Impaired
P. David Howe
16. KINSHIP 292
Bodily Betrayal: Love and Anger in the Time of Epigenetics
Emily Yates-Doerr
17. MASCULINITIES 307
The Male Reproductive Body
Emily Wentzell and Marcia C. Inhorn
18. MEDIATED BODIES 320
Fetal Bodies, Undone
Lynn M. Morgan
19. MODIFICATION 338
Blurring the Divide: Human and Animal Body Modifications
Margo DeMello
20. NEOLIBERALISM 353
Embodying and Affecting Neoliberalism
Carla Freeman
21. PAIN 370
Pain and Bodies
Jean E. Jackson
22. PERSONHOOD 388
Embodiment and Personhood
Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
23. POST-SOCIALISM 403
Troubling the Reproduction of the Nation
Michele Rivkin-Fish
24. RACIALIZATION 419
How To Do Races With Bodies
Didier Fassin
25. THE SENSES 435
Polysensoriality
David Howes
26. SENSORIAL MEMORY 451
Embodied Legacies of Genocide
Carol A. Kidron
27. TASTING FOOD 467
Tasting between the Laboratory and the Clinic
Annemarie Mol
28. TRANSNATIONALISM 481
Bodies-in-Motion: Experiences of Momentum in Transnational Surgery
Emily McDonald
29. VIRTUALITY 504
Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, Cypherg
Tom Boellstorff
Index 521
