Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body

Fushiki Kaori is a professor at the Department of Humanities, Taisho University, Japan. Her expertise lies in the fields of cultural anthropology, organology, ethnomusicology, theatre studies and religious studies. Her research interests cover the performing arts in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, especially Balinese gamelan and glove puppet theatre (wayang potehi) and Chinese rituals related with those performing arts in Singapore. She has published extensively on these topics. Her publications, as a co-editor, include Potehi: Glove puppet theatre in Southeast Asia and Taiwan (2016). She is currently undertaking research on the untold and unseen skills and knowledge of performance acts and the making of musical instruments as a member of a cultural anthropology research group that focuses on the acquisition and developmental processes associated with skills, proficiency and tacit knowledge. Ryoko Sakurada is a lecturer of social and cultural anthropology at the Ikuei Junior College's Modern Communication Department in Japan.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Experiences of the Physical Body.- Part I Body and Space.- Chapter 2 The Social Body of Women: Patriarchal Ideology and Women-centred Kin Networks among Chinese Households in Malaysia.- Chapter 3 A Body Out of Place: Pollution and Pregnancy of Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia.- Part II Imperfect Bodies: Communication and the Body as Media.- Chapter 4 The Embodiment of the Deaf in Japan: A Set of Heuristic Models for Identity, Belonging and Sign Language Use.- Chapter 5 Playing about with Our Imperfect Bodies: Representations of Physical ‘Disability’ in Balinese Mask Drama Topeng.