Beyond the Body Proper

Margaret Lock is Professor of Anthropology and the Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. Her many books include Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death and Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America.Judith Farquhar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China, also published by Duke University Press, and Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine.

“This discerning collection offers a highly creative reading of the development of modern social thought about bodies as means of life in the world. Beyond the Body Proper will be an invaluable classroom companion across a wide range of disciplines in the human sciences.”-Jean Comaroff, Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago “[E]xpansive and provocative. . . . This volume offers an indispensable resource for scholars and an excellent reader for courses on medical anthropology, anthropology of the body, and social theory.” - Sarah Pinto (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)

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