An emergent canon, or putting bodies on the scholarly agenda
Friedrich Engels on the part played by labor in the transition from ape to man / Robert Hertz
The pre-eminence of the right hand / Marcel Granet
Right and left in China / Marcel Mauss
Techniques of the body / Victor Turner
Symbols in Ndembu ritual / Terence Turner
Philosophical studies, or learning how to think embodiment
Karl Marx and opposition of the materialist and idealist outlook / Friedrich Engels
Walter Benjamin on the mimetic faculty / Maurice Merleau-Ponty
From the phenomenology of perception / Ian Hacking
Making up people / Judith Butler
From bodies that matter / Bruno Latour
Do you believe in reality?
Fundamental processes, or denaturalizing the given
Introduction / E.E. Evans-Pritchard
Time and space / Caroline WalK Bynum
Women mystics and eucharistic devotion in the thirteenth century / Kristofer M. Schipper
On breath / Henry Abelove
Some speculations on the history of "sexual intercourse" during the "long eighteenth century" in England / Margaret Lock
Human body parts as therapeutic tools : contradictory discourses and transformed subjectivities / Anna Lowenhaupt
Everyday life, or exploring the body's times and spaces
Introduction to Part IV / Michel de Certeau
Walking in the city / Michael Taussig
Tactility and distraction / Peter Stallybrass and Allon White
The city, the gaze, and the contaminating touch
Medicinal meals / Nancy K. Miller
Rereading as a woman : the body in practice
Colonized bodies, or analyzing the materiality of domination
Introduction ./ Janice Boddy
Remembering Amal : on birth and the British in Northern Sudan / Susan Pedersen
National bodies, unspeakable acts : the sexual politics of colonial policy making / Stuart Cosgrove
The zoot suit and style warfare
Cooptation and control : the reconstruction of Inuit birth / Patricia Leyland Kaufert, Jean Langford
Dosic bodies/docile bodies
Desires and identities, or negotiating sex and gender
Introduction / John Boswell
Men, beasts, and "nature" / Gregory M. Pflugfelder
Cartographies of desire : male-male sexuality in Japanese discourse / Emily Martin
The egg and the sperm : how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles / Gilles Deleuze
We always make love with worlds / Felix Guattari
Bodies at the margin, or attending to distress and difference
Introduction / Barbara Duden
The woman beneath the skin : a doctor's patients in eighteenth-century Germany / Mariella Pandolfi
Memory within the body : women's narrative and identity in a Southern Italian village / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Nervoso / Arthur Kleinman
Somatization : the interconnections in Chinese / Joan Kl/nman
Society among culture, depressive experiences and the meanings of pain
Jarring bodies : thoughts on the display of
Capitalist production, or accounting the commodification of bodily life
Introduction / E.P. Thompson
Time, work-discipline, and industrial capitalism / Aihwa Ong
The production of possession : spirits and the multinational corporation in Malaysia / Brad Weiss plastic teeth extraction : the iconography of Haya gastro-sexual affliction
Matthew Schmidt and constructing a "good catch," picking a winner / Lisa Jean Moore
The development of technosemen and the deconstruction of the monolithic male / Margaret Lock
Alienation of body parts and the biopolitics of immortalized cell lines
Knowing systems, or tracking the bodies of the biosciences
Introduction / Shigehisa Kuriyama
Pulse diagnosis in the Greek and Chinese traditions / Rayna Rapp
Real-time fetus : the role of the sonogram in the age of monitored reproduction / Charis Thompson
Quit sniveling, cryo-baby, we'll work out which one's your mama! / Jos van Dijck
Bodyworlds : the art of plastinated cadavers / Keith Wailoo
Inventing the heterozygote : molecular biology, racial identity, and the narratives of sickle-cell disease / Tay-Sachs, and cystic fibrosis.
