A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment

The authors in A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment utilize studies of bodily experience to launch powerful refutations of abstract, universalizing models and ideologies, and provide new far–reaching analyses of gender, racial, and sexual difference and of bodies embedded in a range of political–economic contexts, including colonialism, late capitalism, neoliberalism, and post–socialism.
Exploring body politics, embodiment, the senses, affect, and emotion, Mascia–Lees brings together a key group of scholars to examine historical and contemporary approaches to, and conceptualizations of, the body.
The authors situate their examination of embodiment in lived worlds, scientific labs, medical clinics, and virtual worlds. They explore topics such as biopower, the body beautiful, transgenderism, genomics, masculinities, modification, pain, the senses, racialization, and virtuality. A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment also offers new theoretical frameworks and conceptual categories which will set the parameters for future research on bodies and embodiments.

Spis treści:
Introduction.
Frances E. Mascia–Lees.
1. AESTHETICS.
Aesthetic Embodiment and Commodity Capitalism.
Frances E. Mascia–Lees.
2. AFFECT.
Learning Affect/Embodying Race.
Ana Yolanda Ramos–Zayas.
3. AUTOETHNOGRAPHY.
When I was a Girl (Notes on Contrivance).
Roger N. Lancaster.
4. BIOETHICS.
Embodied Ethics: From the Body as Specimen and Spectacle to the Body as Patient.
Nora Jones.
5. BIOPOWER.
Biopower and Cyberpower in Online News.
Dominic Boyer.
6. BODILINESS.
The Body beyond the Body: Social, Material and Spiritual Dimensions of Bodiliness.
Terence Turner.
7. COLONIALISM.
Bodies under Colonialism.
Janice Boddy.
8. CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY.
Embodiment: Agency, Sexual Difference, and Illness.
Thomas Csordas.9. DEAD BODIES.
The Deadly Display of Border Politics.
Rocio Magaña.
10. DISSECTION.
Bodies That Matter: Dismemberment, Dissection, and the Return of the Repressed.
Nancy Scheper–Hughes.
11. (TRANS)GENDER.
Tomboi Embodiment.
Evelyn Blackwood .
12. GENOMICS.
Embodying Molecular Genomics.
Margaret Lock.
13. HAPTICS.
Haptic Creativity and the Mid–embodiments of Experimental Life.
Natasha Myers and Joe Dumit.
14. HYBRIDITY.
Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific Imaginary.
Lesley Sharp .
15. IMPAIRMENT.
Sporting Bodies: Sensuous, Lived, and Impaired.
P. David Howe.
16. KINSHIP.
Bodily Betrayal: Love and Anger in the Time of Epigenetics.
Emily Yates–Doerr.
17. MASCULINITIES.
The Male Reproductive Body.
Emily Wentzell and Marcia Inhorn.
18. MEDIATED BODIES.
Fetal Bodies, Undone.
Lynn M. Morgan.
19. MODIFICATION.
Blurring the Divide: Modifying Human and Animal Bodies.
Margo DeMello.
20. NEOLIBERALISM.
Embodying and Affecting Neoliberalism.
Carla Freeman.
21. PAIN.
Pain and Bodies.
Jean E. Jackson.
22. PERSONHOOD.
Embodiment and Personhood.
Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart.
23. POST–SOCIALISM.
Troubling the Reproduction of the Nation.
Michele Rivkin–Fish.
24. RACIALIZATION.
To Do Races With Bodies.
Didier Fassin.
25. THE SENSES.
Polysensoriality.
David Howes.
26. SENSORIAL MEMORY.
Embodied Legacies of Genocide.
Carol A. Kidron.
27. TASTING FOOD.
The Ability to Taste: The Eating Body between Laboratory and Clinic.
Annemarie Mol.
28. TRANSNATIONALISM.
Bodies–in–Motion: Experiences of Momentum in Transnational Surgery.
Emily McDonald.
29. VIRTUALITY.
Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, Cypherg.
Tom Boellstorff.

Nota biograficzna:
Frances E. Mascia–Lees is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She w as 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).

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The authors in A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment utilize studies of bodily experience to launch powerful refutations of abstract, universalizing models and ideologies, and provide new far–reaching analyses of gender, racial, and sexual difference and of bodies embedded in a range of political–economic contexts, including colonialism, late capitalism, neoliberalism, and post–socialism.
Exploring body politics, embodiment, the senses, affect, and emotion, Mascia–Lees brings together a key group of scholars to examine historical and contemporary approaches to, and conceptualizations of, the body.
The authors situate their examination of embodiment in lived worlds, scientific labs, medical clinics, and virtual worlds. They explore topics such as biopower, the body beautiful, transgenderism, genomics, masculinities, modification, pain, the senses, racialization, and virtuality. A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment also offers new theoretical frameworks and conceptual categories which will set the parameters for future research on bodies and embodiments.