About one person in ten claims to have left his or her body at some time. Some were close to death; others had under-gone an accident or shock. Dr Blackmore's e

The authors challenge theories that put the body at the centre of identity, going 'beyond the body' to highlight the persistence of self-identity even when the

A theoretically sophisticated and cross-disciplinary reader in the anthropology of the body.

Investigates the politics of women's health and work in early Victorian England, where government officials and reformers surveying the laboring population beca

When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they