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A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment

Frances E. Mascia-Lees (Editor)

ISBN: 978-1-4443-4046-4

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560 pages

March 2011, Wiley-Blackwell

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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