The body in history, culture, and the arts / edited by Justyna Jajszczok and Aleksandra Musiał.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jajszczok, Justyna, editor.

Musiał-Pudełko, Aleksandra, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in cultural history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Human body in popular culture.

Human body--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"The aim of this book is to explore the body in various historical contexts and to take it as a point of departure for broader historiographical projects. The chapters in the volume present the ways in which the body constitutes a valuable and productive object of historical analysis, especially as a lens through which to trace histories of social, political, and cultural phenomena and processes. More specifically, the authors use the body as a tool for critical re-examination of particular histories of human experience, and of societal and cultural practices, thus contributing to the burgeoning area of body history in terms of both specific case studies as well as historiography in general"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: "the past is written on my body": bodies and history / Justyna Jajszczok and Aleksandra Musial

Fortunio Liceti's strategic use of Lusus naturae in de monstris (1634-1665) and the self-assured semiology of naturalized early modern science / William Leeming

A Tlaxcalan midwife's toolkit: the body, medicine, childbirth, and contact zone in early to mid-colonial New Spain / Jacqueline Susann Holler

Ecstasies, stigmata, and visions: body and sanctity in La civiltà cattolica in the age of positivism (1888-1890) / Carlo Bovolo

Making the body productive/making "the body" productive / Steffan Blayney

Corpulence, modernity, and transcendence in the early twentieth century / Christopher E. Forth

The visual politics of the body in Germany between the two world wars / Claude Lacroix

Representing AIDS: KS lesions, US visual culture, and the body as canvas (1983-1993) / Kylo-Patrick R. Hart

The criminal's hair: forensic practices (1600-1945) / Willemijn Ruberg

Citizen to convict: the consumption of the body in the age of prisoner reentry / CalvinJohn Smiley

Aesth/ethical bodies: Bracha Ettinger's Eurydices and the encounter with the other's history / Anna Kisiel

The king's four bodies: Kantorowicz, Schmitt, Henry, and Hal / David Schauffler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Body in history, culture, and the arts

ISBN:

9780367209551

0367209551

OCLC:

1090443288