A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405189495 ISBN 13: 9781405189491

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Synopsis

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

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1405189495
• ISBN 13: 9781405189491
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560
• Editor: Mascia-Lees Frances E.