CT Suite

Barry F Saunders

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• In CT Suite the doctor and anthropologist Barry F. Saunders provides an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed t... Lees meer

The Republic of Therapy

Vinh-Kim Nguyen

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people... Lees meer

Clothing and Difference

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously... Lees meer

Minority Rules

Louisa Schein

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by othe... Lees meer

A Colonial Lexicon

Nancy Rose Hunt

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the "colonial encounter" paradigm p... Lees meer

The Afterlife of Images

Ari Larissa Heinrich

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• In 1739 China's emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatm... Lees meer

National Past-Times

Ann Anagnost

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• In National Past-Times , Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurat... Lees meer

Beyond the Body Proper

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a "body proper" a singular... Lees meer

The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World

Brad Weiss

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• At the center of this subtle ethnographic account of the Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania is the idea of a lived world as both the product and t... Lees meer

Fluent Bodies

Jean M Langford

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice, Ayurveda, in India. Combining contemporary ethnography with a study of ke... Lees meer

Minority Rules

Louisa Schein

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese people known as the Miao, a group long consigned to the remote highlands and considered backward by othe... Lees meer

Raw Material

Erin O'Connor

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrializing England's relation... Lees meer

Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women

Timothy Burke

• Paperback | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• How do people come to need products they never even knew they wanted? How, for example, did indigenous Zimbabweans of the 1940s begin to believe that ... Lees meer

The Afterlife of Images

Ari Larissa Heinrich

• Hardcover | Engels | Body, Commodity, Text
• In 1739 China's emperor authorized the publication of a medical text that included images of children with smallpox to aid in the diagnosis and treatm... Lees meer