Beyond the body proper
Subtitle: reading the anthropology of material life
By: edited by Margaret Lock and Judith Farquhar.
Series: Body, Commodity, Text
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780822338451
Description: Over the decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a 'body proper': a singular, discrete biological organism with an individual psyche. This text includes sections conceptually organised around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science.