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| Note on the Format of the Book | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Judith Farquhar and Margaret Lock: Introduction | |
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| An Emergent Canon, or Putting Bodies on the Scholarly Agenda | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Friedrich Engels: On the Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man | |
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| Robert Hertz: The Pre-eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in Religious Polarity | |
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| Marcel Granet: Right and Left in China | |
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| Marcel Mauss: Techniques of the Body | |
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| Victor Turner: Symbols in Ndembu Ritual | |
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| Terence S. Turner: The Social Skin | |
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| Philosophical Studies or Learning How to Think Embodiment | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist Outlook | |
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| Walter Benjamin: On the Mimetic Faculty | |
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| Maurice Merleau-Ponty: From The Phenomenology of Perception | |
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| Ian Hacking: Making Up People | |
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| Judith Butler: From Bodies That Matter | |
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| Bruno Latour: Do You Believe in Reality? | |
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| Fundamental Processes, or Denaturalizing the Given | |
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| Introduction | |
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| E. E. Evans-Pritchard: Time and Space | |
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| Caroline Walker Bynum: Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century | |
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| Kristofer M. Schipper: On Breath | |
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| Henry Abelove: Some Speculations on the History of "Sexual Intercourse" during the "Long Eighteenth Century" in England | |
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| Margaret Lock: Human Body Parts as Therapeutic Tools: Contradictory Discourses and Transformed Subjectivities | |
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| Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: Meratus Embryology | |
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| Everyday Life, or Exploring the Body's Times and Spaces | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Michel de Certeau: Walking in the City | |
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| Michael Taussig: Tactility and Distraction | |
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| Peter Stallybrass and Allon White: The City: The Sewer, the Gaze, and the Contaminating Touch | |
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| Judith Farquhar: Medicinal Meals | |
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| Nancy K. Miller: Rereading as a Woman: The Body in Practice | |
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| Colonized Bodies, or Analyzing the Materiality of Domination | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Janice Boddy: Remembering Amal: On Birth and the British in Northern Sudan | |
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| Susan Pedersen: National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Policy Making | |
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| Stuart Cosgrove: The Zoot Suit and Style Warfare | |
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| Patricia Leyland Kaufert and John D. O'Neil: Cooptation and Control: The Reconstruction of Inuit Birth | |
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| Jean Langford: Dosic Bodies/Docile Bodies | |
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| Desires and Identities, or Negotiating Sex and Gender | |
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| Introduction | |
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| John Boswell: Men, Beasts, and "Nature" | |
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| Gregory M. Pflugfelder: Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse | |
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| Emily Martin: The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles | |
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| Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: We Always Make Love with Worlds | |
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| Bodies at the Margin, or Attending to Distress and Difference | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Barbara Duden: The Woman beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany | |
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| Mariella Pandolfi: Memory within the Body: Women's Narrative and Identity in a Southern Italian Village | |
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| Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Nervoso | |
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| Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman: Somatization: The Interconnections in Chinese Society among Culture, Depressive Experiences, and the Meanings of Pain | |
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| Alice Domurat Dreger: Jarring Bodies: Thoughts on the Display of Unusual Anatomies | |
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| Capitalist Production, or Accounting the Commodification of Bodily Life | |
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| Introduction | |
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| E. P. Thompson: Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism | |
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| Aihwa Ong: The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia | |
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| Brad Weiss: Plastic Teeth Extraction: The Iconography of Haya Gastro-Sexual Affliction | |
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| Matthew Schmidt and Lisa Jean Moore: Constructing a "Good Catch," Picking a Winner: The Development of Technosemen and the Deconstruction of the Monolithic Male | |
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| Margaret Lock: Alienation of Body Parts and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines | |
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| Knowing Systems, or Tracking the Bodies of the Biosciences | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Shigehisa Kuriyama: Pulse Diagnosis in the Greek and Chinese Traditions | |
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| Rayna Rapp: Real-Time Fetus: The Role of the Sonogram in the Age of Monitored Reproduction | |
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| Charis Thompson: Quit Sniveling, Cryo-Baby, We'll Work Out Which One's Your Mama! | |
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| Jose van Dijck: Bodyworlds: The Art of Plastinated Cadavers | |
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| Keith Wailoo: Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the Narratives of Sickle-Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Citations for Text Selections | |
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| Index | |