Notes on the Format of the Book
Acknowledgments
Introduction Judith Farquhar and Margaret Lock
I An Emergent Canon, or Putting Bodies on the Scholarly Agenda
Introduction
On the Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man Friedrich Engels
The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in Religious Polarity Robert Hertz
Right and Left in China Marcel Granet
Techniques of the Body Marcel Mauss
Symbols in Ndembu Ritual Victor Turner
The Social Skin Terence S. Turner
II Philosophical Studies, or Learning How to Think Embodiment
Introduction
Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
On the Mimetic Faculty Walter Benjamin
from The Phenomenology of Perception Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Making Up People Ian Hacking
from Bodies That Matter Judith Butler
Do You Believe in Reality? Bruno Latour
III Fundamental Processes, or Denaturalizing the Given
Introduction
Time and Space E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century Caroline Walker Bynum
On Breath Kristofer M. Schipper
Some Speculations on the History of "Sexual Intercourse" during the "Long Eighteenth Century" in England Henry Abelove
Human Body Parts as Therapeutic Tools: Contradictory Discourses and Transformed Subjectivities Margaret Lock
Meratus Embryology Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
IV Everyday Life, or Exploring the Body's Times and Spaces
Introduction
Walking in the City Michel de Certeau
Tactility and Distraction Michael Taussig
The City: The Sewer, the Gaze, and the Contaminating Touch Peter Stallybrass and Allon White
Medicinal Meals Judith Farquhar
Rereading as a Woman: The Body in Practice Nancy K. Miller
V Colonized Bodies, or Analyzing the Materiality of Domination
Introduction
Remembering Amal: On Birth and the British in Northern Sudan Janice Boddy
National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Policy Making Susan Pedersen
The Zoot Suit and Style Warfare Stuart Cosgrove
Cooptation and Control: The Reconstruction of Inuit Birth Patricia Leyland Kaufert and John D. O'Neil
Dosic Bodies/Docile Bodies Jean Langford
VI Desires and Identities, or Negotiating Sex and Gender
Introduction
Men, Beasts, and "Nature" John Boswell
Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse Gregory M. Pflugfelder
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles Emily Martin
We Always Make Love with Worlds Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
VII Bodies at the Margin, or Attending to Distress and Difference
Introduction
The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany Barbara Duden
Memory within the Body: Women's Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village Mariella Pandolfi
Nervoso Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Somatization: The Interconnections in Chinese Society among Culture, Depressive Experiences, and the Meanings of Pain Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman
Jarring Bodies: Thoughts on the Display of Unusual Anatomies Alice Domurat Dreger
VIII Capitalist Production, or Accounting the Commodification of Bodily Life
Introduction
Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism E. P. Thompson
The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia Aihwa Ong
Constructing a "Good Catch," Picking a Winner: The Development of Technosemen and the Deconstruction of the Monolithic Male Matthew Schmidt and Lisa Jean Moore
Alienation of Body Parts and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines Margaret Lock
IX Knowing Systems, or Tracking the Bodies of the Biosciences
Introduction
Pulse Diagnosis in the Greek and Chinese Traditions Shigehisa Kuriyama
Real-Time Fetus: The Role of the Sonogram in the Age of Monitored Reproduction Rayna Rapp
Quit Sniveling, Cryo-Baby, We'll Work Out Which One's Your Mama! Charis Thompson
Bodyworlds: The Art of Plastinated Cadavers Jose van Dijck
Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the Narratives of Sickle-Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis Keith Wailoo
Bibliography
Citations for Text Selections
Index