Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life

704 Pages·2007·118.46 MB·English

by  Margaret Lock (ed.)

BEYOND THE BODY PROPER
BODY, COMMODITY, TEXT
Studies of Objectifying Practice
A SERIES EDITED BY ARJUN APPADURAI,
JEAN COMAROFF. AND JUDITH FARQUHAR
BEYOND
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PROPER
%eading the Anthropology of Material Life
EDITED BY MARGARET LOCK
AND JUDITH FARQUHAR
Duke University Press
Du rham and London 2007
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CONTENTS
Note on the Format of the Book ix
Acknowledgments xi
Judith Farquhar and Margaret Lock : Introduction 1
PARTI AN EMERGENT CANON, OR PUTTING BODIES ON
THE SCHOLARLY AGENDA
Introduction 19
Friedrich Engels : On the Part Played by Labor in the Transition
from Ape to Man 25
Robert Hertz : The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in
Religious Polarity 30
Marcel Granet : Right and Left in China 41
Marcel Mauss : Techniques of the Body 50
Victor Turner : Symbols in Ndembu Ritual 69
Terence S. Turner : The Social Skin 83
PART II PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES. OR LEARNING HOW TO
THINK EMBODIMENT
Introduction 107
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels : Opposition of the Materiahst
and Idealist Oudook 113
Walter Benjamin : On the Mimetic Faculty 130
Maurice Merleau-Ponty : from The Phenomenology of
Perception 133
Ian Hacking : Making Up People 150
Judith Butler : from Bodies That Matter 164
Bruno Latour : Do You Believe in Reality? 176
PART III \ FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES. OR DENATURALIZING THE GIVEN
Introduction 187
E. E. Evans-Pritchard : Time and Space 193
Caroline Walker Bynum : Women Mystics and Eucharistic
Devotion in the Thirteenth Century 202
Kristofer M. Schipper : On Breath 213
Henry Abelove : Some Speculations on the History of "Sexual
Intercourse" during the "Long Eighteenth Century" in
England 217
Margaret Lock : Human Body Parts as Therapeutic Tools:
Contradictory Discourses and Transformed Subjectivities 224
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsi?ig : Meratus Embryology 232
PART IV j EVERYDAY LIFE. OR EXPLORING THE BODY'S TIMES AND SPACES
Introduction 241
Michel de Certeau : Walking in the City 249
Michael Taussig : Tactility and Distraction 259
Peter Stallybrass and Allon White : The City: The Sewer, the Caze,
and the Contaminating Touch 266
Judith Farquhar : Medicinal Meals 286
Nancy K. Miller : Rereading as a Woman: The Body in
Practice 297
PARTY j COLONIZED BODIES, OR ANALYZING THE MATERIALITY
OF DOMINATION
Introduction 307
Janice Boddy : Remembering Amal: On Birth and the British
in Northern Sudan 315
Susan Pedersen : National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts:
The Sexual Politics of Colonial Policy Making 330
Stuart Cosgrove : The Zoot Suit and Style Warfare 347
Patricia Leyland Kaufert and John D. O'Neil : Cooptation
and Control: The Reconstruction of Inuit Birth 359
Jean Langford : Dosic Bodies/Docile Bodies 376
PART VI DESIRES AND IDENTITIES, OR NEGOTIATING SEX AND GENDER
Introduction 383
John Boswell : Men, Beasts, and "Nature" 389
Gregory- M. Pflugfelder : Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male
Sexuality in Japanese Discourse 400
Emily Martin : The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has
Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female
Roles 417
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari : We Always Make Love with
Worlds 428
PART VII BODIES AT THE MARGIN, OR ATTENDING TO DISTRESS
AND DIFFERENCE
Introduction 435
Barbara Duderi : The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor's
Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany 443
Marietta Paitdolfi : Memory within the Body: Women's
Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village 451
Nancy Scheper-Hughes : Nervoso 459
Arthur Klemrnati and Joan Kleinman : Somatization: The
Interconnections in Chinese Society among Culture, Depressive
Experiences, and the Meanings of Pain 468
Alice Domurat Dreger : Jarring Bodies: Thoughts on the Display
of Unusual Anatomies 475
PART VIII ; CAPITALIST PRODUCTION, OR ACCOUNTING THE
I COMMODIFICATION OF BODILY LIFE
Introduction 489
& P. Thompson : Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial
Capitalism 495
Aihwa Ong : The Production of Possession: Spirits and the
Multinational Corporation in Malaysia 512
Brad Weiss : Plastic Teeth Extraction: The Iconography of Haya
Gastro-Sexual Affliction 531
Matthew Schmidt and Lisa jean Moore : Constructing a "Good
Catch," Picking a Winner: The Development of Technosemen and
the Deconstruction of the Monolithic Male 550
Margaret Lock : Alienation of Body Parts and the Biopolitics of
Immortalized Cell Lines 567
PART IX j KNOWING SYSTEMS. OR TRACKING THE BODIES OF
! THE BIOSCIENCES
Introduction 587
Shigehisa Kuriyama : Pulse Diagnosis in the Greek and Chinese
Traditions 595
Rayna Rapp : Real-Time Fetus: The Role of the Sonogram in the
Age of Monitored Reproduction 608
Charts Thompson : Quit Sniveling, Cryo-Baby, We'll Work Out
Which One's Your Mama! 623
Jose van Dijck : Bodyworids: The Art of Plastinated Cadavers 640
Keith Wailoo : Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology,
Racial Identity, and the Narratives of Sickle-Cell Disease,
Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis 658
Bibliography 673
Citations for Text Selections 679
Index 685
NOTE ON THE FORMAT OF THE BOOK
Despite the cultural and historical range of the readings included in this collec-
tion, many bodies have not found their way into this book. Similarly, impor-
tant parts of careful arguments have had to be excised from the bodies of some
of the essays we did include. Where deletions have been made, we have used an
ellipsis tc so indicate.
References to literature not directly connected to the argument or the aims
of this book have been deleted to save space; references to the sources of direct
quotes from scholarly literatures have been maintained, however. Citation
style remains consistent with the original usage for each article: endnotes
including full citations appear in some articles, and in-text author and date
references, with a list of sources at the end of the article, are used in others. A
list of citations for the forty-seven articles in the book has been supplied to
facilitate readers' efforts to locate the originals.
The introductions to each part are meant to help orient readers to the
articles and extracts that follow. References cited in these part introductions
will be found in the general bibliography. In addition to the works cited in the
general introduction and in the part introductions, a few suggestions for
additional reading are included at the end of some part introductions. These
latter sources do not appear in the general bibliography.