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1. 24.2. Introduction of the Course and the Discipline of Anthropology/Sociology of the body

Bodies and social (dis)order

2. 3.3. Techniques of the body (Marcel Mauss)

3. 10.3. The two bodies (Mary Douglas)

4. 17.3. Embodied information in face-to-face interaction (Erwing Goffmann)

5. 24.3. Habitus, the body as both, the outcome and structuring principle (Pierre Bourdieu)

6. 31.3. Docile bodies (Michel Foucault)

7. 7. 4. Embodiment (Robert Murphy)

8. 14.4. Body and subjectivity (?)

Exercising power, shaping bodies

9. 21.4. Body as a discourse negotiation (Judith Butler+ Emily Martin)

10. 28.4. Body as a locus of cultural resistance (Aihwa Ong)

11. 5.5. Body – a central node in a symbolic and social structure (Nancy Scheper Hughes)

12. 19.5. Bodies incommensurable and the menopause (Margaret Lock)

Compulsory literature:

Mauss, Marcel (2007) [1935]. Techniques of the body. In Farquhar, J. and Lock, M. Beyond the Body Proper, pp. 50-68.

Douglas, M. (2004) [1970]. The two bodies. In Douglas, M., Natural symbols, pp. 72-91. Taylor & Francis e-Library.

Goffman, E. (1963). Introductory definitions, pp. 13-30. In Goffman, E., Behaviour in public places. New York, The Free Press.

Wacquant, L. J. D. (1995). Pugs at work: Bodily Capital and Bodily Labour among Professional Boxers. Body & Society, 1(1), 65–93.

Foucault, M. (1991). Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin Books. (Chapter: Docile bodies, pp. 135-169)

Martin, E. (1991). The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles, Signs 16 (3), pp 485-501.

Ong, A. (1988). The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia. American Ethnologist 15/1: 28-42

Scheper-Hughes, N. ([1989] 2006). Mother’s Love: Death without Weeping. In: Spradley, James P. & McCurdy, David W. (Eds.): Conformity & conflict: Readings in cultural anthropology. 14th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson, 156-162.

Lock, M., Kaufert, P. (2001). Menopause, local biologies, and cultures of aging. American Journal of Human Biology, 13(4), 494.