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Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life (Body, Commodity, Text) by Margaret Lock and Judith Farquhar is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life (Body, Commodity, Text) about?
An emergent canon, or putting bodies on the scholarly agenda -- Introduction -- 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 -- The social skin -- Philosophical studies, or learning how to think embodiment -- Introduction -- Karl Marx and opposition of the materialist a
Who reads Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life (Body, Commodity, Text)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Margaret Lock and Judith Farquhar
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822338451
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Sociology, Medical, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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