ISBN:
9781444340457
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (557 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
A companion to the anthropology of the body and embodiment
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Human body ; Social aspects
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Physical anthropology
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Electronic books
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Human body
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Social aspects
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Körper
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Intro -- A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Synopses -- Introduction -- 1. AESTHETICS: Aesthetic Embodiment and Commodity Capitalism -- 2. AFFECT: Learning Affect/Embodying Race -- 3. AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: When I Was A Girl (Notes on Contrivance) -- 4. BIOETHICS: Embodied Ethics: From the Body as Specimen and Spectacle to the Body as Patient -- 5. BIOPOWER: Biopower and Cyberpower in Online News -- 6. BODILINESS: The Body Beyond the Body: Social, Material and Spiritual Dimensions of Bodiliness -- 7. COLONIALISM: Bodies under Colonialism -- 8. CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY: Embodiment: Agency, Sexual Difference, and Illness -- 9. DEAD BODIES: The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics -- 10. DISSECTION: The Body in Tatters: Dismemberment, Dissection, and the Return of the Repressed -- 11. (TRANS)GENDER: Tomboi Embodiment -- 12. GENOMICS: Embodying Molecular Genomics -- 13. HAPTICS: Haptic Creativity and the Mid-embodiments of Experimental Life -- 14. HYBRIDITY: Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific Imaginary -- 15. IMPAIRMENT: Sporting Bodies: Sensuous, Lived, and Impaired -- 16. KINSHIP: Bodily Betrayal: Love and Anger in the Time of Epigenetics -- 17. MASCULINITIES: The Male Reproductive Body -- 18. MEDIATED BODIES: Fetal Bodies, Undone -- 19. MODIFICATION: Blurring the Divide: Human and Animal Body Modifications -- 20. NEOLIBERALISM: Embodying and Affecting Neoliberalism -- 21. PAIN: Pain and Bodies -- 22. PERSONHOOD: Embodiment and Personhood -- 23. POST-SOCIALISM: Troubling the Reproduction of the Nation -- 24. RACIALIZATION: How To Do Races With Bodies -- 25. THE SENSES: Polysensoriality -- 26. SENSORIAL MEMORY: Embodied Legacies of Genocide -- 27. TASTING FOOD: Tasting between the Laboratory and the Clinic.
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