The anatomy of power : European constructions of the African body

Butchart, Alexander, 1961-

dc.contributor.author	Butchart, Alexander, 1961-	en
dc.date.accessioned	2015-10-14T08:36:20Z
dc.date.available	2015-10-14T08:36:20Z
dc.date.issued	1998	en
dc.identifier.isbn	1868880923	en
dc.identifier.isbn	9781868880928
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19424
dc.description	Winner of the Hiddingh-Currie Award 1998 for academic excellence
dc.description.abstract	A study over ten chapters which applies the theoretical tools developed by Michel Foucault to the problem of the African body as it exists to Western socio-medical science in Africa. The book was lauded by critics, as it ` ... offers a novel and radical perspective on the emergence of African body that transcends all other writing in the field'. The author received the Hiddingh Currie Award for Academic Excellence for this book.
dc.description.tableofcontents	Contents -- List of illustrations (pages vii-viii) -- Preface (pages ix-xiv) -- 1. The African body in history and histories of the African body (pages 1-12) -- 2. Power, knowledge and the body (pages 13-33) -- 3. Renaissance body myths and the spectacle of strangeness (pages 34-53) -- 4. A body without volume: the African as target of sovereignty and object of taxonomy (pages 54-73) -- 5. Missionary medicine, moral sanitation and fabrication of the heathen heart (pages 74-91) -- 6. The industrial panopticon: mining and the medical construction of migrant African labour (pages 92-110) -- 7. Discipline and danger: psychological science and the African personality (pages 111-127) -- 8. Filth, food and freedom: public health and its changing African objects (pages 128-153) -- 9 Birth of a Bantu clinic (pages 154-172) -- 10. Postscript: on the anatomy of power (pages 173-185) -- Bibliography (pages 186-209) -- Index (pages 210-220)
dc.format.extent	1 online resource ( xiv, 220 pages) : illustrations
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Pretoria : University of South Africa
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Hiddingh-Currie ; 16
dc.subject.classification	Philosophy
dc.subject.classification	Cultural Studies
dc.subject.classification	African Studies
dc.subject.ddc	306.4096
dc.subject.lcsh	Human body -- Social aspects -- Africa
dc.subject.lcsh	Human body -- Social aspects -- Europe
dc.subject.lcsh	Africans -- Social conditions
dc.subject.lcsh	Africans -- Health and hygiene
dc.subject.lcsh	Africans -- Public opinion
dc.subject.lcsh	Public opinion -- Europe
dc.title	The anatomy of power : European constructions of the African body	en
dc.title.alternative	European constructions of the African body
dc.type	Book