Front Matter -- Introduction / Frances E Mascia-lees -- Aesthetics / Frances E Mascia-Lees -- Affect / Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas -- Autoethnography / Roger N Lancaster -- Bioethics / Nora L Jones -- Biopower / Dominic Boyer -- Bodiliness / Terence Turner -- Colonialism / Janice Boddy -- Cultural Phenomenology / Thomas Csordas -- Dead Bodies / Roc̕o Magąa -- Dissection / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- (Trans)Gender / Evelyn Blackwood -- Genomics / Margaret Lock -- Haptics / Natasha Myers, Joe Dumit -- Hybridity / Lesley Sharp -- Impairment / P David Howe -- Kinship / Emily Yates-Doerr -- Masculinities / Emily Wentzell, Marcia C Inhorn -- Mediated Bodies / Lynn M Morgan -- Modification / Margo DeMello -- Neoliberalism / Carla Freeman -- Pain / Jean E Jackson -- Personhood / Andrew J Strathern, Pamela J Stewart -- Post-Socialism / Michele Rivkin-Fish -- Racialization / Didier Fassin -- The Senses / David Howes -- Sensorial Memory / Carol A Kidron -- Tasting Food / Annemarie Mol -- Transnationalism / Emily McDonald -- Virtuality / Tom Boellstorff -- Index.

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Frances E. Mascia-Lees -- 1. AESTHETICS: Aesthetic embodiment and commodity capitalism / Frances E. Mascia-Lees -- 2. AFFECT: Learning affect/embodying race / Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas -- 3. AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: When I was a girl (notes on contrivance) / Roger N. Lancaster -- 4. BIOETHICS: Embodied ethics: from the body as specimen and spectacle to the body as patient / Nora L. Jones -- 5. BIOPOWER: Biopower and cyberpower in online news / Dominic Boyer -- 6. BODILINESS: The body beyond the body: social, material and spiritual dimensions of bodiliness / Terence Turner -- 7. COLONIALISM: Bodies under colonialism / Janice Boddy -- 8. CULTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY: Embodiment: agency, sexual difference, and illness / Thomas Csordas -- 9. DEAD BODIES: The deadly display of Mexican border politics / Rocío Magaña -- 10. DISSECTION: The body in tatters: dismemberment, dissection, and the return of the repressed / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- 11. (TRANS)GENDER: Tomboi embodiment / Evelyn Blackwood -- 12. GENOMICS: Embodying molecular genomics / Margaret Lock -- 13. HAPTICS: Haptic creativity and the mid-embodiments of experimental life / Natasha Myers and Joe Dumit -- 14. HYBRIDITY: Hybrid bodies of the scientific imaginary / Lesley Sharp -- 15. IMPAIRMENT: Sporting bodies: sensuous, lived, and impaired / P. David Howe -- 16. KINSHIP: Bodily betrayal: love and anger in the time of epigenetics / Emily Yates-Doerr -- 17. MASCULINITIES: The male reproductive body / Emily Wentzell and Marcia C. Inhorn -- 18. MEDIATED BODIES: Fetal bodies, undone / Lynn M. Morgan -- 19. MODIFICATION: Blurring the divide: human and animal body modifications / Margo DeMello -- 20. NEOLIBERALISM: Embodying and affecting neoliberalism / Carla Freeman -- 21. PAIN: Pain and bodies / Jean E. Jackson -- 22. PERSONHOOD: Embodiment and personhood / Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- 23. POST-SOCIALISM: Troubling the reproduction of the nation / Michele Rivkin-Fish -- 24. RACIALIZATION: How to do races with bodies / Didier Fassin -- 25. THE SENSES: Polysensoriality / David Howes -- 26. SENSORIAL MEMORY: Embodied legacies of genocide / Carol A. Kidron -- 27. TASTING FOOD: Tasting between the laboratory and the clinic / Annemarie Mol -- 28. TRANSNATIONALISM: Bodies-in-motion: experiences of momentum in transnational surgery / Emily McDonald -- 29. VIRTUALITY: Placing the virtual body: avatar, chora, cypherg / Tom Boellstorff.

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