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A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment MMascia-Lees_ffirs.inddascia-Lees_ffirs.indd i 22/12/2011/12/2011 88:59:26:59:26 PPMM The Blackwell Companions to Anthropology offers a series of comprehensive syntheses of the traditional subdisciplines, primary subjects, and geographic areas of inquiry for the field. Taken together, the series represents both a contemporary survey of anthro- pology and a cutting edge guide to the emerging research and intellectual trends in the field as a whole. 1. A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology edited by Alessandro Duranti 2. A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics edited by David Nugent and Joan Vincent 3. A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians edited by Thomas Biolsi 4. A Companion to Psychological Anthropology edited by Conerly Casey and Robert B. Edgerton 5. A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan edited by Jennifer Robertson 6. A Companion to Latin American Anthropology edited by Deborah Poole 7. A Companion to Biological Anthropology, edited by Clark Larsen (hardback only) 8. A Companion to the Anthropology of India, edited by Isabelle Clark-Decès 9. A Companion to Medical Anthropology edited by Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson 10. A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology edited by David B, Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bennardo, Victor de Munck, and Michael D. Fischer 11. A Companion to Cultural Resource Management, Edited by Thomas King 12. A Companion to the Anthropology of Education, Edited by Bradley A.U. Levinson and Mica Pollack 13. A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment, Edited by Frances E. Mascia-Lees Forthcoming A Companion to Forensic Anthropology, edited by Dennis Dirkmaat A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe, edited by Ullrich Kockel, Máiréad Nic Craith, and Jonas Frykman MMascia-Lees_ffirs.inddascia-Lees_ffirs.indd iiii 22/12/2011/12/2011 88:59:26:59:26 PPMM A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment Edited by Frances E. Mascia-Lees A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication MMascia-Lees_ffirs.inddascia-Lees_ffirs.indd iiiiii 22/12/2011/12/2011 88:59:26:59:26 PPMM This edition first published 2011 © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. with the exception of Chapter 10 © 2011 Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Chapter 11 © 2011 Evelyn Blackwood Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientifi c, Technical, and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. 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If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A companion to the anthropology of the body and embodiment / edited by Frances E. Mascia-Lees. p. cm. – (Blackwell companions to anthropology ; 19) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4051-8949-1 (hardback) 1. Human body–Social aspects. I. Mascia-Lees, Frances E., 1953– GN298.C65 2011 306.4′613–dc22 2010049391 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This book is published in the following electronic formats: ePDFs 9781444340457; Wiley Online Library 9781444340488; ePub 9781444340464 Set in 10/12.5pt Galliard by SPi Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed in Singapore 1 2011 MMascia-Lees_ffirs.inddascia-Lees_ffirs.indd iivv 22/12/2011/12/2011 88:59:26:59:26 PPMM For my husband, Francis C. Lees MMascia-Lees_ffirs.inddascia-Lees_ffirs.indd v 22/12/2011/12/2011 88:59:26:59:26 PPMM Contents Notes on Contributors x Synopses xvii Introduction 1 Frances E. Mascia-Lees 1. AESTHETICS 3 Aesthetic Embodiment and Commodity Capitalism Frances E. Mascia-Lees 2. AFFECT 24 Learning Affect/Embodying Race Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas 3. AUTOETHNOGRAPHY 46 When I Was A Girl (Notes on Contrivance) Roger N. Lancaster 4. BIOETHICS 72 Embodied Ethics: From the Body as Specimen and Spectacle to the Body as Patient Nora L. Jones 5. BIOPOWER 86 Biopower and Cyberpower in Online News Dominic Boyer 6. BODILINESS 102 The Body Beyond the Body: Social, Material and Spiritual Dimensions of Bodiliness Terence Turner MMascia-Lees_ftoc.inddascia-Lees_ftoc.indd vviiii 22/12/2011/12/2011 33:42:53:42:53 PPMM viii CONTENTS 7. COLONIALISM 119 Bodies under Colonialism Janice Boddy 8. CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY 137 Embodiment: Agency, Sexual Difference, and Illness Thomas Csordas 9. DEAD BODIES 157 The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics Rocío Magaña 10. DISSECTION 172 The Body in Tatters: Dismemberment, Dissection, and the Return of the Repressed Nancy Scheper-Hughes 11. (TRANS)GENDER 207 Tomboi Embodiment Evelyn Blackwood 12. GENOMICS 223 Embodying Molecular Genomics Margaret Lock 13. HAPTICS 239 Haptic Creativity and the Mid-embodiments of Experimental Life Natasha Myers and Joe Dumit 14. HYBRIDITY 262 Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific Imaginary Lesley Sharp 15. IMPAIRMENT 276 Sporting Bodies: Sensuous, Lived, and Impaired P. David Howe 16. KINSHIP 292 Bodily Betrayal: Love and Anger in the Time of Epigenetics Emily Yates-Doerr 17. MASCULINITIES 307 The Male Reproductive Body Emily Wentzell and Marcia C. Inhorn 18. MEDIATED BODIES 320 Fetal Bodies, Undone Lynn M. Morgan MMascia-Lees_ftoc.inddascia-Lees_ftoc.indd vviiiiii 22/12/2011/12/2011 33:42:53:42:53 PPMM CONTENTS ix 19. MODIFICATION 338 Blurring the Divide: Human and Animal Body Modifications Margo DeMello 20. NEOLIBERALISM 353 Embodying and Affecting Neoliberalism Carla Freeman 21. PAIN 370 Pain and Bodies Jean E. Jackson 22. PERSONHOOD 388 Embodiment and Personhood Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart 23. POST-SOCIALISM 403 Troubling the Reproduction of the Nation Michele Rivkin-Fish 24. RACIALIZATION 419 How To Do Races With Bodies Didier Fassin 25. THE SENSES 435 Polysensoriality David Howes 26. SENSORIAL MEMORY 451 Embodied Legacies of Genocide Carol A. Kidron 27. TASTING FOOD 467 Tasting between the Laboratory and the Clinic Annemarie Mol 28. TRANSNATIONALISM 481 Bodies-in-Motion: Experiences of Momentum in Transnational Surgery Emily McDonald 29. VIRTUALITY 504 Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, Cypherg Tom Boellstorff Index 521 MMascia-Lees_ftoc.inddascia-Lees_ftoc.indd iixx 22/12/2011/12/2011 33:42:53:42:53 PPMM Notes on CHAPTER 1 Contributors Evelyn Blackwood is Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University. She has writ- ten extensively in areas of sexuality, identity, gender and kinship, including work on Native American female two-spirits, gender transgression, gender and power, and matrilineal kinship. She has authored two monographs on Indonesia, Webs of Power: Women, Kin and Community in a Sumatran Village and Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia. Together with Saskia E. Wieringa, she published two anthologies on women’s same-sex sexualities and female masculinities, Female Desires: Same-sex Relations and Transgender Practices across Cultures and Women’s Sexualities and Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia. Janice Boddy is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Univer- sity of Toronto and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is a cultural anthro- pologist interested in gender, ritual and religion, medical and historical issues, meaning, the body and selfhood, especially in northern Sudan, where she has con- ducted research since 1976. Her publications include Wombs and Alien Spirits, Women, Men and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan (University of Wisconsin Press, 1989), Aman, the Story of a Somali Girl (with Aman and Virginia Lee Barnes, Vin- tage 1995) and Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan (Princeton University Press, 2007). Tom Boellstorff is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. He is the author of publications in many edited volumes and a range of journals, as well as the books The Gay Archi- pelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia (Princeton University Press, 2005), A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia (Duke University Press, 2007); and Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Princeton University Press, 2008). MMascia-Lees_flast.inddascia-Lees_flast.indd x 22/12/2011/12/2011 33:42:52:42:52 PPMM NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xi Dominic Boyer is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and has previously held positions at the University of Chicago, Cornell University and the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
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