Beyond the Body Proper

Notes on the Format of the Book  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction / Judith Farquhar and Margaret Lock  1
I. An Emergent Canon, or Putting Bodies on the Scholarly Agenda
Introduction  19
On the Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man / Friedrich Engels  25
The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in Religious Polarity / Robert Hertz  30
Right and Left in China / Marcel Granet  41
Techniques of the Body / Marcel Mauss  50
Symbols in Ndembu Ritual / Victor Turner  69
The Social Skin / Terence S. Turner  83
II. Philosophical Studies, or Learning How to Think Embodiment
Introduction  107
Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels  113
On the Mimetic Faculty / Walter Benjamin  130
from The Phenomenology of Perception / Maurice Merleau-Ponty  133
Making Up People / Ian Hacking  150
from Bodies That Matter / Judith Butler  164
Do You Believe in Reality? / Bruno Latour  176
III. Fundamental Processes, or Denaturalizing the Given
Introduction  187
Time and Space / E. E. Evans-Pritchard  193
Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century / Caroline Walker Bynum  202
On Breath / Kristofer M. Schipper  213
Some Speculations on the History of “Sexual Intercourse” during the “Long Eighteenth Century” in England / Henry Abelove  217
Human Body Parts as Therapeutic Tools: Contradictory Discourses and Transformed Subjectivities / Margaret Lock  224
Meratus Embryology / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing  232
IV. Everyday Life, or Exploring the Body’s Times and Spaces
Introduction  241
Walking in the City / Michel de Certeau  249
Tactility and Distraction / Michael Taussig  259
The City: The Sewer, the Gaze, and the Contaminating Touch / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White  266
Medicinal Meals / Judith Farquhar  286
Rereading as a Woman: The Body in Practice / Nancy K. Miller  297
V. Colonized Bodies, or Analyzing the Materiality of Domination
Introduction  307
Remembering Amal: On Birth and the British in Northern Sudan / Janice Boddy  315
National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Policy Making / Susan Pedersen  330
The Zoot Suit and Style Warfare / Stuart Cosgrove  347
Cooptation and Control: The Reconstruction of Inuit Birth / Patricia Leyland Kaufert and John D. O’Neil  359
Dosic Bodies/Docile Bodies / Jean Langford  376
VI. Desires and Identities, or Negotiating Sex and Gender
Introduction  383
Men, Beasts, and “Nature” / John Boswell  389
Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse / Gregory M. Pflugfelder  400
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles / Emily Martin  417
We Always Make Love with Worlds / Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari  428
VII. Bodies at the Margin, or Attending to Distress and Difference
Introduction  435
The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany / Barbara Duden  443
Memory within the Body: Women’s Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village / Mariella Pandolfi  451
Nervoso / Nancy Scheper-Hughes  459
Somatization: The Interconnections in Chinese Society among Culture, Depressive Experiences, and the Meanings of Pain / Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman  468
Jarring Bodies: Thoughts on the Display of Unusual Anatomies / Alice Domurat Dreger  475
VIII. Capitalist Production, or Accounting the Commodification of Bodily Life
Introduction  489
Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism / E. P. Thompson  495
The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia / Aihwa Ong  512
Constructing a “Good Catch,” Picking a Winner: The Development of Technosemen and the Deconstruction of the Monolithic Male / Matthew Schmidt and Lisa Jean Moore 550
Alienation of Body Parts and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines / Margaret Lock  567
IX. Knowing Systems, or Tracking the Bodies of the Biosciences
Introduction  587
Pulse Diagnosis in the Greek and Chinese Traditions / Shigehisa Kuriyama  595
Real-Time Fetus: The Role of the Sonogram in the Age of Monitored Reproduction / Rayna Rapp  608
Quit Sniveling, Cryo-Baby, We’ll Work Out Which One’s Your Mama! / Charis Thompson  623
Bodyworlds: The Art of Plastinated Cadavers / Jose van Dijck  640
Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the Narratives of Sickle-Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis / Keith Wailoo  658
Bibliography  673
Citations for Text Selections  679
Index  685