A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment

Herausgegeben von Mascia-Lees, Frances E.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1136g
• ISBN-13: 9781405189491
• ISBN-10: 1405189495
• Artikelnr.: 33238966

Autorenporträt

Frances E. Mascia-Lees is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She was Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist from 2001-2006, is a Founder and current Member of the Board of Anthropology Now, and an International Scholar of the Open Society Institute. She is author of numerous publications including Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World: Toward an Engaged Cultural Criticism (2000), Women's Realities, Women's Choice, (3rd Edition, 2005) and Gender and Difference in a Globalizing World: 21st Century Anthropology (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Aesthetics 2. Affect 3. Autoethnography 4. Bioethics 5.
Biopower 6. Bodiliness 7. Colonialism 8. Cultural phenomenology 9. Dead
bodies 10. Dissection 11. (trans)gender 12. Genomics 13. Haptics 14.
Hybridity 15. Impairment 16. Kinship 17. Masculinities 18. Mediated bodies
19. Modification 20. Neoliberalism 21. Pain 22. Personhood 23.
Post-socialism 24. Racialization 25. The senses 26. Sensorial memory 27.
Tasting food 28. Transnationalism 29. Virtuality

Rezensionen

"Overall, this is a rich and valuable resource which offers great insight into bodies, and anthropological research on bodies, today." (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29 April 2014)

"This wonderful companion to embodiment and body-studies covers twenty nine different aspects from our daily embodied lives." (The Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 1 May 2012)