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Bodylore

Katharine Galloway Young c1993 © University of Tennessee Press
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780870497995 (hardcover)
  • 9780870498909 (paper)
Subject
  • Folklore
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

  • Stats

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (Katharine Young, page vii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xv)
  • Introduction (Katharine Young, page xvii)
  • Inscription/Exscription
    • 1. Moroccan Women's Body Signs (Deborah Kapchan, page 3)
    • 2. The Body in Water: Women in American Spa Culture (Susan Slyomovics, page 35)
  • Boundary/Transgression
    • 3. When Nothing Really Matters: Body Puns in Hamlet (Phyllis Gorfain, page 59)
    • 4. Drinking the Blood of Childbirth: The Reincorporation of the Dead in Hakka Funeral Ritual (Maxine Miska, page 88)
  • Grotesque/Ethereal
    • 5. Still Life with Corpse: Management of the Grotesque Body in Medicine (Katharine Young, page 111)
    • 6. Contesting the Body Politic: The Patum of Berga (Dorothy Noyes, page 134)
  • Embodiment/Disembodiment
    • 7. Quilts and Women's Bodies: Dis-eased and Desiring (Jane Przybysz, page 165)
    • 8. The Spirit in the Body (Elizabeth Wickett, page 185)
  • Body/Text
    • 9. A Body of Texts: The Fiction of Humanization in Medical Discourse (Susan Ritchie, page 205)
    • 10. From the Body as Evidence to the Body of Evidence (Barbie Zelizer, page 225)
  • Annotated Bibliography (page 245)
  • Contributors (page 251)
  • Index (page 255)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAF 109.432 (Spring, 1996): 214-215 http://www.jstor.org/stable/541844
AANTH 97.1 (Mar. 1995): 172-173 http://www.jstor.org/stable/682420
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