Beyond the body proper : reading the anthropology of material life / edited by Margaret Lock and Judith Farquhar.

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2007.

688 pages ; 25 cm.

An emergent canon, or putting bodies on the scholarly agenda -- Introduction -- Friedrich Engels on the part played by labor in the transition from ape to man / Robert Hertz -- The pre-eminence of the right hand / Marcel Granet --Right and left in China / Marcel Mauss -- Techniques of the body / Victor Turner --Symbols in Ndembu ritual / Terence Turner -- The social skin -- Philosophical studies, or learning how to think embodiment -- Introduction -- Karl Marx and opposition of the materialist and idealist outlook / Friedrich Engels -- Walter Benjamin on the mimetic faculty / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- From the phenomenology of perception / Ian Hacking -- Making up people / Judith Butler -- From bodies that matter / Bruno Latour -- Do you believe in reality? -- Fundamental processes, or denaturalizing the given -- Introduction / E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- Time and space / Caroline WalK Bynum -- Women mystics and eucharistic devotion in the thirteenth century / Kristofer M. Schipper -- On breath / Henry Abelove -- Some speculations on the history of "sexual intercourse" during the "long eighteenth century" in England / Margaret Lock -- Human body parts as therapeutic tools : contradictory discourses and transformed subjectivities / Anna Lowenhaupt -- Tsing Meratus embryology -- Everyday life, or exploring the body's times and spaces -- Introduction to Part IV / Michel de Certeau -- Walking in the city / Michael Taussig -- Tactility and distraction / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White -- The city, the gaze, and the contaminating touch -- Judith Farquhar -- Medicinal meals / Nancy K. Miller -- Rereading as a woman : the body in practice -- Colonized bodies, or analyzing the materiality of domination -- Introduction ./ Janice Boddy --Remembering Amal : on birth and the British in Northern Sudan / Susan Pedersen -- National bodies, unspeakable acts : the sexual politics of colonial policy making / Stuart Cosgrove -- The zoot suit and style warfare -- John D. O'Neil -- Cooptation and control : the reconstruction of Inuit birth / Patricia Leyland Kaufert, Jean Langford -- Dosic bodies/docile bodies -- Desires and identities, or negotiating sex and gender -- Introduction / John Boswell -- Men, beasts, and "nature" / Gregory M. Pflugfelder -- Cartographies of desire : male-male sexuality in Japanese discourse / Emily Martin -- The egg and the sperm : how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles / Gilles Deleuze -- We always make love with worlds / Felix Guattari -- Bodies at the margin, or attending to distress and difference -- Introduction / Barbara Duden -- The woman beneath the skin : a doctor's patients in eighteenth-century Germany / Mariella Pandolfi-- Memory within the body : women's narrative and identity in a Southern Italian village / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Nervoso / Arthur Kleinman -- Somatization : the interconnections in Chinese / Joan Kl/nman -- Society among culture, depressive experiences and the meanings of pain -- Alice Domurat Dreger-- Jarring bodies : thoughts on the display of -- Unusual anatomies -- Capitalist production, or accounting the commodification of bodily life -- Introduction / E. P. Thompson --Time, work-discipline, and industrial capitalism / Aihwa Ong --The production of possession : spirits and the multinational corporation in Malaysia / Brad Weiss plastic teeth extraction : the iconography of Haya gastro-sexual affliction -- Matthew Schmidt and constructing a "good catch," picking a winner / Lisa Jean Moore -- The development of technosemen and the deconstruction of the monolithic male / Margaret Lock -- Alienation of body parts and the biopolitics of immortalized cell lines -- Knowing systems, or tracking the bodies of the biosciences -- Introduction / Shigehisa Kuriyama -- Pulse diagnosis in the Greek and Chinese traditions / Rayna Rapp -- Real-time fetus : the role of the sonogram in the age of monitored reproduction / Charis Thompson -- Quit sniveling, cryo-baby, we'll work out which one's your mama! / Jos van Dijck -- Bodyworlds : the art of plastinated cadavers / Keith Wailoo -- Inventing the heterozygote : molecular biology, racial identity, and the narratives of sickle-cell disease / Tay-Sachs, and cystic fibrosis.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [673]-683) and index.