The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts

ISBN-13: 9780367209551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 180 str.

Justyna Jajszczok; Aleksandra Musial

Opis

This book proposes various ways of conceptualizing the body and of examining its relationship to history and historiography. Chapters focus on specific body-related histories, with the overall goal of accentuating the place, the role, and the use of the body in history, culture, and the arts.

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Introduction: "The Past is Written on My Body": Bodies and History  Part I: The Liminal Body  1. Fortunio Liceti’s Strategic Use of Lusus Naturae in De Monstris (1634–1665) and the Self-Assured Semiology of Naturalized Early Modern Science  2. A Tlaxcalan Midwife’s Toolkit: The Body, Medicine, Childbirth, and Contact Zone in Early to Mid-Colonial New Spain  3. Ecstasies, Stigmata, and Visions: Body and Sanctity in La Civiltà Cattolica in the Age of Positivism (1888–1890)  Part II: The Modern Body  4. Making the Body Productive/Making "the Body" Productive  5. Corpulence, Modernity, and Transcendence in the Early Twentieth Century  Part III: The Visual Body  6. The Visual Politics of the Body in Germany Between the Two World Wars  7. Representing AIDS: KS Lesions, US Visual Culture, and the Body as Canvas (1983–1993)  Part IV: The Punished Body  8. The Criminal’s Hair: Forensic Practices (1600–1945)  9. Citizen to Convict: The Consumption of the Body in the Age of Prisoner Reentry  Part V: The Entangled Body  10. Aesth/ethical Bodies: Bracha Ettinger’s Eurydices and the Encounter with the Other’s History  11. The King’s Four Bodies: Kantorowicz, Schmitt, Henry, and Hal