A companion to the anthropology of the body and embodiment / / edited by Frances E. Mascia-Lees ; contributors Evelyn Blackwood [and twenty six others]

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (617 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/613
• Soggetto topico: Human body - Social aspects
• Classificazione: SOC002020
• Persona (resp. second.): Mascia-LeesFrances E. <1953->; BlackwoodEvelyn
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Series page""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Synopses""; ""Introduction""; ""CHAPTER 1 AESTHETICS""; ""AESTHETICIZATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE""; ""AESTHETIC EMBODIMENT""; ""THE U.S. ARTS AND CRAFTS REVIVAL""; ""THE IDEOLOGY OF AN AESTHETIC""; ""THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF AN AESTHETIC""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""CHAPTER 2 AFFECT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""FROM HAPPY IMMIGRANT TO DEPRESSED MINORITY: AN EMOTIONAL EPISTEMOLOGY OF RACE IN NEWARK, NJ""; ""EMOTIONAL EPISTEMOLOGIES AND TRANSNATIONAL RACIAL SYSTEMS"" ; ""NEOLIBERAL-FRIENDLY EMOTIVE SUBJECTS: EMBODYING AFFECTIVE LABOR AND "DOING BLACKNESS RIGHT"""""FINAL REMARKS AND FURTHER REFLECTIONS""; ""CHAPTER 3 AUTOETHNOGRAPHY""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""WHEN I WAS A GIRL (NOTES ON CONTRIVANCE)""; ""PROLOGUE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CHAPTER 4 BIOETHICS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE BODY AS SPECIMEN""; ""THE BODY AS SPECTACLE""; ""THE BODY AS PATIENT""; ""CONCLUSION: AN EMBODIED, ENLIVENED, BIOETHICS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CHAPTER 5 BIOPOWER""; ""BIOPOWER, GOVERNMENTALITY, ONLINE NEWS""; ""NEWS MEDIA, MODERN PUBLICITY, BIOPOWER"" ; ""DIGITAL PUBLICITY, CYBERPOWER""""PLATFORM, CONTENT, USER: AN OUTLINE OF ONLINE CYBERPOLITICAL DISCOURSE AND PRACTICE""; ""CONCLUSION: BIOPOLITICS AND/AS CYBERPOLITICS""; ""CHAPTER 6 BODILINESS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""BODY SCHEMA AS MATERIAL CONTENT AND SPIRIT FORM: LIFE PROCESS AS DIALECTIC OF FORM AND CONTENT""; ""GROSS AND SUBTLE ANATOMY: FLESH, BLOOD, SKIN, HAIR, SENSES AND EXTREMITIES""; ""THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF BODILY FORM: "SOCIAL SKIN" AND "SOCIAL BODY"""; ""BODY AS MICROCOSM: BODILINESS AND COSMOS AS FORMATIVE PROCESSES OF SPACE-TIME"" ; ""RITUAL BODIES: FEATHERS, ANIMAL IDENTITIES, AND MASKS""""OBJECTIFICATION, DEOBJECTIFICATION, AND THE CHANGING RELATIONS OF BODY AND SPIRIT""; ""CONCLUSION: BODILY FORM AS SPIRIT AND AGENT; EMBODIMENT AS POWER""; ""CHAPTER 7 COLONIALISM""; ""THE PROBLEM OF LABOR""; ""BIOPOLITICS""; ""CHALLENGES AND NEW DIRECTIONS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""CHAPTER 8 CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY""; ""ELEMENTARY STRUCTURES OF AGENCY""; ""SEXUAL DIFFERENCE""; ""THREE INSTANCES OF ILLNESS""; ""SEXUAL DIFFERENCE AND LEGITIMACY: INTEGRITY, ACTIVITY, EXPOSURE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""CHAPTER 9 DEAD BODIES"" ; ""A MEXICAN POLITICS OF DEATH""""HEADS, HEADSHOTS, AND THE DEAD BODY ON DISPLAY, PAST AND PRESENT""; ""TENDING TO NEGLECT: MIGRANT DEATH IN THE ARIZONA-MEXICO BORDER""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""CHAPTER 10 DISSECTION""; ""PROLOGUE: LAND OF THE LIVING DEAD""; ""INTACT BODIES""; ""RATIONALIZED BODIES""; ""AUTOPSY""; ""BIO-PIRACY, DISSECTION AND TRAFFIC IN BODIES""; ""REPATRIATION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CHAPTER 11 (TRANS)GENDER""; ""EMBODIMENT AND TRANSGENDER STUDIES""; ""EMBODIMENT AND SUBJECTIVITY""; ""TOMBOIS IN WEST SUMATRA""; ""VERSIONS OF FEMININITY IN COMMUNITY SPACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENT"" ; ""CHAPTER 12 GENOMICS""
• Sommario/riassunto: "A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment offers original essays that examine historical and contemporary approaches to conceptualizations of the body. In this ground-breaking work on the body and embodiment, the latest scholarship from anthropology and related social science fields is presented, providing new insights on body politics and the experience of the body Original chapters cover historical and contemporary approaches and highlight new research frameworks Reflects the increasing importance of embodiment and its ethnographic contexts within anthropology Highlights the increasing emphasis on examining the production of scientific, technological, and medical expertise in studying bodies and embodiment."--Provided by publisher.; "Exploring body politics, embodiment, the senses, affect, and emotion, Mascia-Lees brings together a key group of scholars to examine historical and contemporary approaches to, and conceptualizations of, the body. The authors situate their examination of embodiment in lived worlds, scientific labs, medical clinics, and virtual worlds. They explore topics such as biopower, the body beautiful, transgenderism, genomics, masculinities, modification, pain, the senses, racialization, and virtuality. A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment also offers new theoretical frameworks and conceptual categories which will set the parameters for future research on bodies and embodiments"--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to the anthropology of the body and embodiment
• ISBN: 9786613407320; 1-4443-5059-5; 1-78268-321-6; 1-283-40732-9; 1-4443-4048-4; 1-4443-4046-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910208839903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to anthropology ; ; 13.