Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life (Body, Commodity, Text)

by Margaret Lock (Author), Margaret Lock (Author), Judith Farquhar (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $38.00

  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.