Margaret Lock, Judith Farquhar

Broschiertes Buch

Beyond the Body Proper

Reading the Anthropology of Material Life

Herausgeber: Lock, Margaret

Beschreibung

Includes nine sections organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. This title features articles and book excerpts focused on bodies using tools and participating in rituals, on bodies walking and eating, and on the female circumcision controversy, as well as pieces on medical classifications, and spirit possession.

Autor

Margaret Lock is Professor of Anthropology and the Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. Her many books include Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death and Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America. Judith Farquhar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China, also published by Duke University Press, and Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine.

Produktdetails

• Body, Commodity, Text
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 160mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 982g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338451
• ISBN-10: 0822338459
• Artikelnr.: 22601541