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. Note on the Format of the Book ix Acknowledgments xi Judith Farquhar and Margaret Lock: Introduction 1 PART I 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 Materialist and Idealist Outlook 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 Tsing: Meratus Embryology 232 PART IV 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 Gaze, and the Contaminating Touch 266 Judith Farquhar: Medicinal Meals 286 Nancy K. Miller: Rereading as a Woman: The Body in Practice 297 PART V 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 Duden: The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany 443 Mariella Pandolfi: Memory within the Body: Women's Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village 451 Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Nervoso 459 Arthur Kleinman 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 COMMODIFICATION OF BODILY LIFE Introduction 489 E.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 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 Charis Thompson: Quit Sniveling, Cryo-Baby, We'll Work Out Which One's Your Mama! 623 Jos an Dijck: Bodyworlds: 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