Montag, 28. Oktober 2013, 18:00 - 20:00 iCal
8. Eric Wolf Lecture
Margaret Lock: Reassessing Embodiment in the Era of the Epigenome
ÖAW Festsaal
Dr. Ignaz Seipel Platz 2, 1020 Wien
Lecture
The theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics postulated by Jean-Baptist Lamarck early in the 19th century is undergoing a surprising revival, albeit in modified form.
The burgeoning field of epigenetics, grounded in molecular biology, rests on the assumption assumes that variables other than genes, both external and internal to the body, contribute at times to the phenotype of ensuing generations. The gene has been de-centered as the organizing principle of human life. However, evenAl though epigeneticists acknowledge that historical, social, political, and environmental variables contribute to cellular epigenetics, their primary approach is one of a reinvigorated somatic reductionism, focused on cellular-level mechanisms at the cellular level that activate genes. In this lecture, Margaret Lock argues instead that anthropologists must counter such reductionism by embraceing a theory of embodiment that recognizes a nature/nurture entanglement, a lifelong factor that contributes throughout the lives of individuals in individualto development, behavior, health, and disease, via the medium of epigenetic markers. Such dDeep ethnographically grounded research that situates material bodies in specific historical, socio/political, and environmental realities. It of lived experiences is called for. Such research permits theorizing the ways in whichabout how violence, discrimination, racism, and unremitting poverty are literally embodied and lead to , bringing about the obdurate unequal distribution of disease and illness so evident in epidemiological research. Furthermore, it challenges a common anthropological assumption of a universal, skin-bounded material body.
Am Folgetag, dem 29. Oktober, besteht die Möglichkeit zur Diskussion mit Margaret Lock. Zeit: 16.00–18.00 Uhr, Ort: IFK
Margaret Lock is Marjorie Bronfman Professor Emerita in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine and the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. Her research focuses on an anthropology of the body, comparative epistemologies of medical knowledge, and the global impact of emerging biomedical technologies. Her monograph "Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America" won several prizes.
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Veranstalter
IFK, ÖAW, Uni Wien (Institut für Sozialanthropologie)
Kontakt
Ingrid Söllner-Pötz
IFK
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
+43 1 4071370 DW 28
soellner-poetz@ifk.ac.at
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Letzte Änderung am Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2013, 09:25