The Body in Asia

Published by Berghahn Books 2009

The Body in Asia

Edited by: Bryan S. Turner and Zheng Yangwen

Volume 3 in the series Asia-Pacific Studies: Past and Present

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845459666

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About this book

The past few decades have seen growing interest in the study of the body. However, the increasing number of exciting and influential publications has primarily, if not exclusively, focused on the body in Western cultures. The various works produced by Asian scholars remain largely unknown to Western academic debates even though Asia is home to a host of rich body cultures and religions. The peoples of Asia have experienced colonization, decolonization, and now globalization, all of which make the ‘body in Asia’ a rewarding field of research. This unique volume brings together a number of scholars who work on East, Southeast and South Asia and presents original and cutting edge research on the body in various Asian cultures.

Author / Editor information

Bryan S. Turner is the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College, USA (2009–2011) and Professor of Social and Political Thought and Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He has published Weber and Islam (1974), Marx and the End of Orientalism (1978), and edited Religious Diversity and Civil Society (2007). With Mike Featherstone he founded the journal Body & Society and his book The Body and Society went into its third edition in 2008. He is currently editing the New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion.

Zheng Yangwen received her PhD from the University of Cambridge (King’s College). She taught and researched at the University of Pennsylvania (2002–04) and the National University of Singapore (2004–06) before joining the University of Manchester in 2007. She is the author of The Social Life of Opium in China (2005). She co-edited Negotiating Asymmetry: China’s Place in Asia with Anthony Reid (2009) and Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity with Charles J-H Macdonald (2009).

Bryan S. Turner is the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College, USA (2009–2011) and Professor of Social and Political Thought and Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He has published Weber and Islam (1974), Marx and the End of Orientalism (1978), and edited Religious Diversity and Civil Society (2007). With Mike Featherstone he founded the journal Body & Society and his book The Body and Society went into its third edition in 2008. He is currently editing the New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion.

Reviews

“The volume provides a welcome summary of the fast growing literature and introduces a wealth of Asian empirical, ethnographic, and historic data throughout the chapters…the book challenges readers to rethink their own body and the bodies around them in everyday life and provides an excellent introduction into the sociology of the body and the anthropology of embodiment.” · Pacific Asia Inquiry

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Bryan S. Turner and Zheng Yangwen Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Piety, Politics And Philosophy: Asia And The Global Body Bryan S. Turner and Zheng Yangwen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 The Global Body Cannot Ignore Asia Susan Brownell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Part I. The Body And Religion
2 Saint or Serpent? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives Monika Dix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3 Creating Religious Bodies: Fasting Rituals in West Java Jörgen Hellman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4 Formations of Public Piety: New Veiling, the Body, and the Citizen-Subject in Contemporary Indonesia Sonja van Wichelen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Part II. The Body and Culture
5 Westernized Body or Japanized Western Body: The Desirable Female Body in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Magazines Junko Ishiguro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
6 Fatness and Well-Being: Bodies and the Generation Gap in Contemporary China Anna Lora-Wainwright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Part III. The Body and the State
7 Seki Jūrōji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Citizen–State Relations in Meiji Japan Denis Gainty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
8 The Sacred and the Sanitary: The Colonial ‘Medicalization’ of the Filipino Body Julius Bautista and Mercedes Planta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
9 State and Religious Contestations over the Body: Hook Swinging and the Production of New Human Subjects Santhosh Raghavan Nair Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
10 Women’s Revolution Embodied in Mao Zedong Era Ballet Zheng Yangwen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Keywords: Anthropology (General); Sociology; Political and Economic Anthropology; Anthropology of Religion

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Published: November 1, 2009
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