Beyond the Body Proper by Margaret Lock

Beyond the Body Proper by Margaret Lock

Includes nine sections organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. This title features articles and book excerpts focused on bodies using tools and participating in rituals, on bodies walking and eating, and on the female circumcision controversy, as well as pieces on medical classifications, and spirit possession.

“This discerning collection offers a highly creative reading of the development of modern social thought about bodies as means of life in the worldBeyond 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 *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780822338451
ISBN 10	0822338459
Title	Beyond the Body Proper
Author	Margaret Lock
Series	Body Commodity Text
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	2007-04-13
Number of pages	704
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