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Berghahn Books The Body in Asia 2009 Edition by Bryan S. Turner, Zheng Yangwen
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. Table of contents :- List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Piety, Politics and Philosophy: Asia and the Global BodyBryan S. Turner and Zheng YangwenChapter 1. The Global Body Cannot Ignore AsiaSusan BrownellPART I: THE BODY AND RELIGIONChapter 2. Saint or Serpent? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist NarrativesMonika DixChapter 3. Creating Religious Bodies: Fasting Rituals in West JavaJoergen HellmanChapter 4. Formations of Public Piety: New Veiling, the Body, and the Citizen-Subject in Contemporary IndonesiaSonja van WichelenPART II: THE BODY AND CULTUREChapter 5. Westernized Body or Japanized Western Body: The Desirable Female Body in Contemporary Japanese Women's MagazinesJunko IshiguroChapter 6. Fatness and Well-being: Bodies and the Generation Gap in Contemporary ChinaAnna Lora-WainwrightPART III: THE BODY AND THE STATEChapter 7. Seki Juroji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Citizen-State Relations in Meiji JapanDenis GaintyChapter 8. The Sacred and the Sanitary: The Colonial 'Medicalization' of the Filipino BodyJulius Bautista with Ma. Mercedes PlantaChapter 9. State and Religion Contestations over the Body: Hook Swinging and the Production of New Human SubjectsR. SanthoshChapter 10. Women's Revolution and Liberation Embodied in Mao Zedong Era BalletZheng YangwenNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex