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A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and
"ethical" concerns about the social implications of recent
developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense
that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we
treat the human body and our attitudes towards it have changed.
This volume asks what really happens to social relations in the
face of new types of transaction - such as organ donation, forensic
identification and other new medical and reproductive technologies
- that involve the use of corporeal material. Drawing on
comparative insights into how human biological material is treated,
it aims to consider how far human bodies and their components are
themselves inherently "social." The case studies - ranging from
animal-human transformations in Amazonia to forensic reconstruction
in post-conflict Serbia and the treatment of Native American
specimens in English museums - all underline that, without social
relations, there are no bodies but only "human remains." The volume
gives us new and striking ethnographic insights into bodies as
sociality, as well as a potentially powerful analytical
reconsideration of notions of embodiment. It makes a novel
contribution, too, to "science and society" debates.
A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and
"ethical" concerns about the social implications of recent
developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense
that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we
treat the human body and our attitudes towards it have changed.
This volume asks what really happens to social relations in the
face of new types of transaction - such as organ donation, forensic
identification and other new medical and reproductive technologies
- that involve the use of corporeal material. Drawing on
comparative insights into how human biological material is treated,
it aims to consider how far human bodies and their components are
themselves inherently "social." The case studies - ranging from
animal-human transformations in Amazonia to forensic reconstruction
in post-conflict Serbia and the treatment of Native American
specimens in English museums - all underline that, without social
relations, there are no bodies but only "human remains." The volume
gives us new and striking ethnographic insights into bodies as
sociality, as well as a potentially powerful analytical
reconsideration of notions of embodiment. It makes a novel
contribution, too, to "science and society" debates.
These essays examine the importance of historical consicousness and
the role of historiography in 'ethnic' situations, exploring the
many ways in which ethnic groups select history, write or rewrite
it, rescue appropriate or ignore it, forget or traduce it. Drawing
on expert knowledge of regions ranging from the Amazon to
contemporary Germany, the contributors bring anthropological and
historical understanding to answer these questions, and investigate
major topics such as the relationship between ethnic, national and
state identifications, and the cultural work of creating them.
Examples include Afrikaaners and Northern Ireland Protestants, as
well as Mormons and Catalans. Bringing together a variety of themes
that have recently become the focus of study - ethnicity, the uses
and nature of history and the likelihood of objectivity in
historical telling - the book will be of great interest ot students
in the social sciences, anthropology, politics, history and
international relations.
These essays examine the importance of historical consicousness and
the role of historiography in 'ethnic' situations, exploring the
many ways in which ethnic groups select history, write or rewrite
it, rescue appropriate or ignore it, forget or traduce it. Drawing
on expert knowledge of regions ranging from the Amazon to
contemporary Germany, the contributors bring anthropological and
historical understanding to answer these questions, and investigate
major topics such as the relationship between ethnic, national and
state identifications, and the cultural work of creating them.
Examples include Afrikaaners and Northern Ireland Protestants, as
well as Mormons and Catalans. Bringing together a variety of themes
that have recently become the focus of study - ethnicity, the uses
and nature of history and the likelihood of objectivity in
historical telling - the book will be of great interest ot students
in the social sciences, anthropology, politics, history and
international relations.
Why do so many people feel compelled to drink alcohol or take
drugs? And why do so many men drink and so many women refrain?
Using ideas from social anthropology, this book attempts to provide
a novel answer to these questions. The introduction surveys both
gender and addiction. It points out that we cannot say what men or
women are really like, in any culturally innocent sense, for gender
is always, even in the realm of biology, a cultural matter. The
ethnographic chapters, ranging from Ancient Rome to modern Japan,
similarly suggest how any substance - from alcohol to tea to heroin
- inevitably takes its meaning or reality in the cultural system in
which it exists.
This book will be of interest to medical anthropologists, medical
sociologists, anyone with an interest in the contemporary direction
of anthropology as well as those working in the fields of alcohol
and addiction.
Why do so many people feel compelled to drink alcohol or take
drugs? And why do so many men drink and so many women refrain?
Using ideas from social anthropology, this book attempts to provide
a novel answer to these questions. The introduction surveys both
gender and addiction. It points out that we cannot say what men or
women are really like, in any culturally innocent sense, for gender
is always, even in the realm of biology, a cultural matter. The
ethnographic chapters, ranging from Ancient Rome to modern Japan,
similarly suggest how any substance - from alcohol to tea to heroin
- inevitably takes its meaning or reality in the cultural system in
which it exists.
This book will be of interest to medical anthropologists, medical
sociologists, anyone with an interest in the contemporary direction
of anthropology as well as those working in the fields of alcohol
and addiction.
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