LEADER 04567nam 22006375 450 001 9910799229703321 005 20251201182807.0 010 $a981-9957-24-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-99-5724-8 035 $a(CKB)29468186100041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31051340 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31051340 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-99-5724-8 035 $a(OCoLC)1416655012 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929468186100041 100 $a20231222d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAnthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body /$fedited by Kaori Fushiki, Ryoko Sakurada 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (155 pages) 225 1 $aSocial Sciences Series 311 08$a9789819957231 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1 Introduction: Experiences of the Physical Body -- Part I Body and Space -- Chapter 2 The Social Body of Women: Patriarchal Ideology and Women-centred Kin Networks among Chinese Households in Malaysia -- Chapter 3 A Body Out of Place: Pollution and Pregnancy of Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia -- Part II Imperfect Bodies: Communication and the Body as Media -- Chapter 4 The Embodiment of the Deaf in Japan: A Set of Heuristic Models for Identity, Belonging and Sign Language Use -- Chapter 5 Playing about with Our Imperfect Bodies: Representations of Physical ?Disability? in Balinese Mask Drama Topeng. 330 $aThis book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining changing understandings of the physical human body from a variety of anthropological perspectives. In doing so, it interrogates how the body has been and continues to be conceptualised, experienced and interacted with. After an introductory appraisal of recent approaches to understanding the body, the book provides empirically rich accounts from East and Southeast Asia of how cultural, environmental and social norms shape human physicality. The contributions are organised in four broad themes. Part I, ?Body and Space?, offers two contrasting case studies from Malaysia, both of which examine gender norms associated with marriage and pregnancy, including the taboos associated with these rites of passage. Part II, ?Imperfect Bodies: Communication and the Body as Media?, analyses two case studies?Deaf people in Japan and masked theatre performance in Bali, Indonesia, to reflect on changing attitudes towards disability, which reflect broader social norms and cultural beliefs about the nature of disability and its place in society. Part III, ?The Body and Image?, provides a pair of case studies from Singapore, on male fans of the popular manga boys? love genre and on ways that the Chinese zodiac system is determined from birth and continues to be spiritually embedded in the body of a Chinese individual through ritual practices. Part IV, ?The Body as Container: Taming the Bodies??, presents a single case study from Thailand of spirit possession among schoolchildren. Though wide-ranging, all the case studies posit that the body is a site of constant negotiation. The way the body is presented and the way it is seen are shaped by a complex array of social, cultural, political and ideational factors. Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body is a valuable interdisciplinary work for advanced students and researchers interested in representations of the body in East and Southeast Asia and for those with wider interests in the field of critical anthropology. . 410 0$aSocial Sciences Series (Springer Nature Singapore) 606 $aEthnology 606 $aEthnology$zAsia 606 $aCulture 606 $aPhysical anthropology 606 $aReligions 606 $aAnthropology of religion 606 $aSex 607 $aEast Asia 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aPhysical anthropology. 615 0$aReligions. 615 0$aAnthropology of religion. 615 0$aSex. 676 $a306.095 702 $aFushiki$b Kaori 702 $aSakurada$b Ryoko$f1975- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910799229703321 996 $aAnthropology Through the Experience of the Physical Body$93872411 997 $aUNINA