Body, Commodity, Text – serie
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Clothing and Difference
Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
Häftad, 1996
301 kr
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This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the …
National Past-Times
Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China
Av Ann Anagnost
Häftad, 1997
353 kr
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In National Past-Times, Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. In essays revealing the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state, Anagnost examines the disparate eras of its …
Differences in Medicine
Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies
Häftad, 1998
396 kr
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Western medicine-especially in contrast with non-Western traditions of medical practice-is widely thought of as a coherent and unified field in which beliefs, definitions, and judgments are shared. Marc Berg and Annemarie Mol debunk this myth with an interdisciplinary and intercultural collection …
Colonial Lexicon
Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
Inbunden, 1999
1462 kr
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A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, …
Colonial Lexicon
Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
Häftad, 1999
441 kr
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A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, …
Minority Rules
The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics
Häftad, 2000
441 kr
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Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation’s fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over seven …
In the Place of Origins
Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand
Häftad, 2000
329 kr
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In the Place of Origins tells the tale of modernity in Northern Thailand, discerning its oblique signs in the performances of contemporary spirit mediums. In a world driven by the twin fantasies of pastness and newness, Rosalind C. Morris reveals that spirit mediumship is not simply a theater of …
Reproducing Jews
A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel
Häftad, 2000
343 kr
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There are more fertility clinics per capita in Israel than in any other country in the world and Israel has the world's highest per capita rate of in-vitro fertilization procedures. Fertility treatments are fully subsidized by Israeli national health insurance and are available to all Israelis, …
Raw Material
Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture
Inbunden, 2000
1456 kr
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Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England’s relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, Erin O’Connor …
Raw Material
Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture
Häftad, 2000
442 kr
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Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England’s relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, Erin O’Connor …
Appetites
Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China
Inbunden, 2002
1322 kr
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Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily …
Appetites
Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China
Häftad, 2002
329 kr
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Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of clinics and urban daily …
Fluent Bodies
Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance
Häftad, 2002
396 kr
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Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice, Ayurveda, in India. Combining contemporary ethnography with a study of key historical moments as glimpsed through early-twentieth-century texts, Jean M. Langford argues that as Ayurveda evolved from an eclectic set of …
Feeding Anorexia
Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
Häftad, 2003
396 kr
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Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen Gremillion reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of …
Beyond the Body Proper
Reading the Anthropology of Material Life
Av Margaret Lock, Judith Farquhar
Häftad, 2007
427 kr
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Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a “body proper”: a singular, discrete biological organism with an individual psyche. They have begun to perceive embodiment as dynamic rather than static, as experiences that …
Afterlife of Images
Translating the Pathological Body Between China and the West
Häftad, 2008
353 kr
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In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of …
CT Suite
The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting
Häftad, 2008
651 kr
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In CT Suite the doctor and anthropologist Barry F. Saunders provides an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed tomographic (CT) scanner, shapes social relations and intellectual activities in and beyond the CT suite, the unit within the diagnostic radiology …
Republic of Therapy
Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of AIDS
Inbunden, 2010
1304 kr
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The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and CÔte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen …
Republic of Therapy
Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of AIDS
Häftad, 2010
396 kr
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The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and CÔte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen …
Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World
Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice
Av Brad Weiss
Inbunden, 1996
1266 kr
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At the center of this subtle ethnographic account of the Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania is the idea of a lived world as both the product and the producer of everyday practices. Drawing on his experience living with the Haya, Brad Weiss explores Haya ways of constructing and inhabiting their …
Clothing and Difference
Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
Inbunden, 1996
1266 kr
Tillfälligt slut
This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the …
Differences in Medicine
Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies
Inbunden, 1998
1304 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Western medicine-especially in contrast with non-Western traditions of medical practice-is widely thought of as a coherent and unified field in which beliefs, definitions, and judgments are shared. Marc Berg and Annemarie Mol debunk this myth with an interdisciplinary and intercultural collection …
Minority Rules
The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics
Inbunden, 2000
1406 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by other Chinese. Now the nation’s fifth largest minority, the Miao number nearly eight million people speaking various dialects and spread out over seven …
In the Place of Origins
Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand
Inbunden, 2000
1350 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In the Place of Origins tells the tale of modernity in Northern Thailand, discerning its oblique signs in the performances of contemporary spirit mediums. In a world driven by the twin fantasies of pastness and newness, Rosalind C. Morris reveals that spirit mediumship is not simply a theater of …
Reproducing Jews
A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel
Inbunden, 2000
1266 kr
Tillfälligt slut
There are more fertility clinics per capita in Israel than in any other country in the world and Israel has the world's highest per capita rate of in-vitro fertilization procedures. Fertility treatments are fully subsidized by Israeli national health insurance and are available to all Israelis, …
Fluent Bodies
Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance
Inbunden, 2002
1361 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice, Ayurveda, in India. Combining contemporary ethnography with a study of key historical moments as glimpsed through early-twentieth-century texts, Jean M. Langford argues that as Ayurveda evolved from an eclectic set of …
Feeding Anorexia
Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
Inbunden, 2003
1361 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen Gremillion reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of …
Beyond the Body Proper
Reading the Anthropology of Material Life
Av Margaret Lock, Judith Farquhar
Inbunden, 2007
1629 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a “body proper”: a singular, discrete biological organism with an individual psyche. They have begun to perceive embodiment as dynamic rather than static, as experiences that …
Afterlife of Images
Translating the Pathological Body Between China and the West
Inbunden, 2008
1304 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Those images made their way to Europe, where they were interpreted as indicative of the ill health and medical backwardness of …
CT Suite
The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting
Inbunden, 2008
1448 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In CT Suite the doctor and anthropologist Barry F. Saunders provides an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed tomographic (CT) scanner, shapes social relations and intellectual activities in and beyond the CT suite, the unit within the diagnostic radiology …
