Chapter 5. Performing Criminal Anthropology: Science, Popular Wisdom, and the Body
- Jonathan Xavier Inda
Published Online: 21 APR 2008
DOI: 10.1002/9780470775875.ch5
Copyright © 2005 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Book Title
Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics
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How to Cite
Horn, D. G. (2008) Performing Criminal Anthropology: Science, Popular Wisdom, and the Body, in Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality, and Life Politics (ed J. X. Inda), Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9780470775875.ch5
Publication History
- Published Online: 21 APR 2008
- Published Print: 1 JAN 2005
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9780631228264
Online ISBN: 9780470775875
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Keywords:
- criminal anthropology;
- social prophylaxis;
- testimony;
- scientific authority;
- legal medicine
Summary
This chapter contains section titled:
Introduction
Popular Culture and Proverbial Wisdom
Reading Bodies: The Child, the Savage, and the Scientist
Making Numbers: Bodies and Tools
The Expert Witness
Notes
References