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Social scientists and interpretive theorists of culture have struggled with the 'mind-body problem' since the inception of the human sciences. To emulate the natural sciences as they understand them, many social scientists pursue a predictive science ('in principle') that curtails attention to the creative dimension of culture. Cultural theorists, on the other hand, sometimes minimize the role of biology in human life in order to preserve a space for creativity in thought, emotion, and culture. Even culturalists who study bodily representations seldom examine the body as a site of biocultural dispositions and relay point for political mobilization. The anxiety is that to ...