Farquhar / Appadurai / Comaroff Appetites

Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8345-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 354 Seiten

Reihe: Body, Commodity, Text

An experimental ethnography of food, sex, and health in post-socialist China

Autoren/Hrsg.

Farquhar, Judith

Appadurai, Arjun

Comaroff, John L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

Part I. Eating: A Politics of the Senses

Preamble to Part I / Lei Feng, Tireless Servant of the People 37

1. Medicinal Meals 47

2. A Feast for the Mind 79

3. Excess and Deficiency 121

Part II. Desiring: An Ethics of Embodiment

Preamble to Part II / Du Wanxiang, The Rosy Glow of the Good Communist 167

4. Writing the Self: The Romance of the Personal 175

5. Sexual Science: The Representation of Behavior 211

6. Ars Erotica 243

Conclusion / Hailing Historical Bodies 285

Notes 293

References 323

Index 337

Über Autor(innen)

Judith Farquhar is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine.