Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jajszczok, Justyna
• Musiał, Aleksandra

Description

viii, 179 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in cultural history

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in cultural history.

Subject

• Human body > Social aspects
• Human body in popular culture
• Human body > Political aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 19-7815

ISBN

• 9780367209551
• 0367209551

LCCN

• 2019009728
• 40029228961

OCLC

1090443288

Title

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

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in cultural history

Routledge studies in cultural history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Jajszczok, Justyna, editor.

Musiał, Aleksandra, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Body in history, culture, and the arts New York : Routledge, 2019 9780429264399 (DLC) 2019016511

Other Standard Identifier

40029228961

Research Call Number

JFE 19-7815