Introducing Anthropology. Laura Pountney

Cambridge University Press.

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      Lasco, G. and A. Hardon (2019) ‘Keeping up with the times: Skin-lightening practices among young men in the Philippines’, Culture, Health & Sexuality 22(7): 838–853.

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      Sharp, L. (2006) Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self. University of California Press.

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      Yea, S. (2015) ‘Masculinity under the knife: Filipino men, trafficking and the black organ market in Manila, the Philippines’, Gender, Place and Culture 22(1): 123–142.

       Ethnographic films

      Body Games: Capoeira and Ancestry (2013), directed by Richard Pakleppa, Matthias Röhrig Assunção and Christine Dettmann

      The Guest (2012), directed by Kira de Hemmer Jeppesen

      This Is My Face (2018), directed by Angélica Cabezas Pino

      Tighten the Drums: Self-Decoration among the Enga (1983), anthropologist Chris Owen (a look into the art of body decoration as a visual language in the western highlands of Papua New Guinea)

Websites

      Genital Cutting and Western Discourses on Sexuality: http://www.cirp.org/library/anthropology/bell1/

      I’m Transhuman. I’m Going to Become Digital: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=qOcktbXSfxU

      Semen as Gift, Semen as Goods: Reproductive Workers and the Market in Altruism: www.psychologytoday.com/files/attachments/123646/semenasgifttober.pdf

      The displays at the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum and the Body Arts, Virtual Collections website are designed to illustrate some of the many ways in which people around the world have modified their bodies and to offer some explanations for why they have done so: http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/bodyarts