Body, Commodity, Text Series

18 primary works • 18 total works
Body, Commodity, Text promotes work that explores embodiment as a grounded material process inseparably entangled with the production of meaning and value. The triangle of themes which this series engages is of canonic importance for anthropology and critical cultural studies. At the same time it works at the nexus of some of the best recent critic…
A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investi…
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Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China
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· 40 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2002 · 9 editions
Judith Farquhar’s innovative study of medicine and…
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Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life
Over the past several decades, scholars in both th…
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Bodies of Work: Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh
By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh e…
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Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
This volume examines the dynamic relationship betw…
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CT Suite: The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting
In CT Suite the doctor and anthropologist Barry F.…
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Differences in Medicine: Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies
Western medicine—especially in contrast with non-W…
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Feeding Anorexia: Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
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· 28 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2003 · 6 editions
Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions…
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Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance
Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the in…
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In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand
In the Place of Origins tells the tale of modernit…
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Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe
How do people come to need products they never eve…
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Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics
Minority Rules is an ethnography of a Chinese peop…
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National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China
In National Past-Times , Ann Anagnost explores the…
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Raw Material : Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture
Raw Material analyzes how Victorians used the path…
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Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel
There are more fertility clinics per capita in Isr…
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The Afterlife of Images: Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West
In 1739 China’s emperor authorized the publication…
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The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice
At the center of this subtle ethnographic account …
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The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of AIDS
The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the glo…
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