Abstract
(Oxford: Berghahn Books). ISBN 978-1-84545-553-8 (hardback only) 169pp. excl. Contributors, Index. £43.00.What of the anthropology of the body in the new millennium? How is the eld of the anthropol-ogy of the body moving on since the symbolic anthropology and the social body in the 1970s and the discursive and disciplinary corporal-ity of social life examined by anthropologists from the 1980s and 1990s? Into the millennium, medical anthropology has strongly in uenced literature about the anthropology of the body. O! en this has been through the opening up of contentious new areas of research: witness the work of Margaret Lock (2002) and Nancy Scheper-Hughes (2008; forthcoming) on organ transplants and organ tra cking respectively. Some of this cu# ing-edge research is taken up and taken further by contributors to Lambert’s and McDonald’s new volume,
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