Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment

Frances E. Mascia-Lees is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She was Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist from 2001 to 2006, is a Founder and current Member of the Board of Anthropology Now, and was an International Scholar of the Open Society Institute from 2007 to 2010. 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).

“Overall, this is a rich and valuable resource which offers great insight into bodies, and anthropological research on bodies, today.”  (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 29 April 2014)“This wonderful companion to embodiment and body-studies covers twenty nine different aspects from our daily embodied lives.”  (The Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 1 May 2012)

• Notes on Contributors xSynopses xviiIntroduction 1Frances E. Mascia-Lees1. AESTHETICS 3Aesthetic Embodiment and Commodity CapitalismFrances E. Mascia-Lees2. AFFECT 24Learning Affect/Embodying RaceAna Yolanda Ramos-Zayas3. AUTOETHNOGRAPHY 46When I Was A Girl (Notes on Contrivance)Roger N. Lancaster4. BIOETHICS 72Embodied Ethics: From the Body as Specimen and Spectacle to the Body as PatientNora L. Jones5. BIOPOWER 86Biopower and Cyberpower in Online NewsDominic Boyer6. BODILINESS 102The Body Beyond the Body: Social, Material and Spiritual Dimensions of BodilinessTerence Turner7. COLONIALISM 119Bodies under ColonialismJanice Boddy8. CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY 137Embodiment: Agency, Sexual Difference, and IllnessThomas Csordas9. DEAD BODIES 157The Deadly Display of Mexican Border PoliticsRocío Magaña10. DISSECTION 172The Body in Tatters: Dismemberment, Dissection, and the Return of the RepressedNancy Scheper-Hughes11. (TRANS)GENDER 207Tomboi EmbodimentEvelyn Blackwood12. GENOMICS 223Embodying Molecular GenomicsMargaret Lock13. HAPTICS 239Haptic Creativity and the Mid-embodiments of Experimental LifeNatasha Myers and Joe Dumit14. HYBRIDITY 262Hybrid Bodies of the Scientific ImaginaryLesley Sharp15. IMPAIRMENT 276Sporting Bodies: Sensuous, Lived, and ImpairedP. David Howe16. KINSHIP 292Bodily Betrayal: Love and Anger in the Time of EpigeneticsEmily Yates-Doerr17. MASCULINITIES 307The Male Reproductive BodyEmily Wentzell and Marcia C. Inhorn18. MEDIATED BODIES 320Fetal Bodies, UndoneLynn M. Morgan19. MODIFICATION 338Blurring the Divide: Human and Animal Body ModificationsMargo DeMello20. NEOLIBERALISM 353Embodying and Affecting NeoliberalismCarla Freeman21. PAIN 370Pain and BodiesJean E. Jackson22. PERSONHOOD 388Embodiment and PersonhoodAndrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart23. POST-SOCIALISM 403Troubling the Reproduction of the NationMichele Rivkin-Fish24. RACIALIZATION 419How To Do Races With BodiesDidier Fassin25. THE SENSES 435PolysensorialityDavid Howes26. SENSORIAL MEMORY 451Embodied Legacies of GenocideCarol A. Kidron27. TASTING FOOD 467Tasting between the Laboratory and the ClinicAnnemarie Mol28. TRANSNATIONALISM 481Bodies-in-Motion: Experiences of Momentum in Transnational SurgeryEmily McDonald29. VIRTUALITY 504Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, CyphergTom BoellstorffIndex 521