Embodiment and experience : the existential ground of culture and self / edited by Thomas J. Csordas.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

xi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Introduction: the body as representation and being-in-the-world / Thomas J. Csordas -- 1. Bodies and anti-bodies: flesh and fetish in contemporary social theory / Terence Turner -- 2. Society's body: emotion and the "somatization" of social theory / M.L. Lyon and J.M. Barbalet -- 3. The political economy of injury and compassion: amputees on the Thai-Cambodia border / Lindsay French -- 4. Nurturing and negligence: working on others' bodies in Fiji / Anne E. Becker -- 5. The silenced body -- the expressive Leib: on the dialectic of mind and life in Chinese cathartic healing / Thomas Ots -- 6. Embodied metaphors: nerves as lived experience / Setha M. Low -- 7. Bodily transactions of the passions: el calor among Salvadoran women refugees / Janis H. Jenkins and Martha Valiente -- 8. The embodiment of symbols and the acculturation of the anthropologist / Carol Laderman -- 9. Chronic pain and the tension between the body as subject and object / Jean Jackson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.