The Body in Asia

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84545-550-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 507 g

Reihe: Asia-Pacific Studies: Past and Present

The past few decades have seen growing interest in the study of the body. However, the increasing number of exciting and influential publications has primarily, if not exclusively, focused on the body in Western cultures. The various works produced by Asian scholars remain largely unknown to Western academic debates even though Asia is home to a host of rich body cultures and religions. The peoples of Asia have experienced colonization, decolonization, and now globalization, all of which make the ‘body in Asia’ a rewarding field of research. This unique volume brings together a number of scholars who work on East, Southeast and South Asia and presents original and cutting edge research on the body in various Asian cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Turner, Bryan S.

Yangwen, Zheng

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Piety, Politics and Philosophy: Asia and the Global Body

Bryan S. Turner and Zheng Yangwen

Chapter 1. The Global Body Cannot Ignore Asia

Susan Brownell

PART I: THE BODY AND RELIGION

Chapter 2. Saint or Serpent? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives

Monika Dix

Chapter 3. Creating Religious Bodies: Fasting Rituals in West Java

Jörgen Hellman

Chapter 4. Formations of Public Piety: New Veiling, the Body, and the Citizen-Subject in Contemporary Indonesia

Sonja van Wichelen

PART II: THE BODY AND CULTURE

Chapter 5. Westernized Body or Japanized Western Body: The Desirable Female Body in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Magazines

Junko Ishiguro

Chapter 6. Fatness and Well-being: Bodies and the Generation Gap in Contemporary China

Anna Lora-Wainwright

PART III: THE BODY AND THE STATE

Chapter 7. Seki Juroji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Citizen–State Relations in Meiji Japan

Denis Gainty

Chapter 8. The Sacred and the Sanitary: The Colonial ‘Medicalization’ of the Filipino Body

Julius Bautista with Ma. Mercedes Planta

Chapter 9. State and Religion Contestations over the Body: Hook Swinging and the Production of New Human Subjects

R. Santhosh

Chapter 10. Women’s Revolution and Liberation Embodied in Mao Zedong Era Ballet

Zheng Yangwen

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yangwen, Zheng
Zheng Yangwen received her PhD from the University of Cambridge (King’s College). She taught and researched at the University of Pennsylvania (2002–04) and the National University of Singapore (2004–06) before joining the University of Manchester in 2007. She is the author of The Social Life of Opium in China (2005). She co-edited Negotiating Asymmetry: China’s Place in Asia with Anthony Reid (2009) and Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture and Identity with Charles J-H Macdonald (2009).

Turner, Bryan S.
Bryan S. Turner is the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College, USA (2009–2011) and Professor of Social and Political Thought and Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He has published Weber and Islam (1974), Marx and the End of Orientalism (1978), and edited Religious Diversity and Civil Society (2007). With Mike Featherstone he founded the journal Body & Society and his book The Body and Society went into its third edition in 2008. He is currently editing the New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion.

Bryan S. Turner is the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College, USA (2009–2011) and Professor of Social and Political Thought and Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He has published Weber and Islam (1974), Marx and the End of Orientalism (1978), and edited Religious Diversity and Civil Society (2007). With Mike Featherstone he founded the journal Body & Society and his book The Body and Society went into its third edition in 2008. He is currently editing the New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion.