ISBN:
978-1-137-52879-7
,
978-1-137-52879-7
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (27 Seiten)
Publ. der Quelle:
London : Palgrave Macmillan
Angaben zur Quelle:
, Seiten 641-662
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Soziologie und Anthropologie
Abstract:
We outline four perspectives on the body that have emerged from ethnographic research on (bio)medicine. We describe these with particular attention to the way they relate ‘nature’ and ‘culture.’ All four approaches engage the human body through ‘culture’ as meaning or practice. The material body is either implicitly treated as universal or particularized through discourse, experience or practice. Trying to stake out a middle ground between material universality and cultural particularity, we discuss the potential within these approaches for an anthropological engagement with the evolution of human bodies over time. In concluding, we use the case of the entanglement of mental illness and urban environments to underscore four modes of engaging the situated body-in-action through long-term, co-laborative ethnographic research.
Abstract:
Peer Reviewed
Note:
Final version published as: Patrick Bieler, Jörg Niewöhner: “Universal Biology, Local Society? Notes from Anthropology”. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society. Edited by Maurizio Meloni, John Cromby, Des Fitzgerald, Stephanie Lloyd. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pages 641–662. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-52879-7_27
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-52879-7_27
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/24332-8
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