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
About the Author
Frances E. Mascia-Lees is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She was Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist from 2001 to 2006, is a Founder and current Member of the Board of Anthropology Now, and was an International Scholar of the Open Society Institute from 2007 to 2010. She is author of numerous publications including Taking a Stand in a Postfeminist World: Toward an Engaged Cultural Criticism (2000), Women’s Realities, Women’s Choice, (3rd Edition, 2005) and Gender and Difference in a Globalizing World: 21st Century Anthropology (2011).
