Anatomies
Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0393348849
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Anatomy and Destiny
Author: Stephen Kern
Publisher: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 344
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Author: Christopher E. Forth
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2019-06-15
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 178914096X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFat: such a little word evokes big responses. While ‘fat’ describes the size and shape of bodies, our negative reactions to corpulent bodies also depend on something tangible and tactile; as this book argues, there is more to fat than meets the eye. Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life offers a historical reflection on how fat has been perceived and imagined in the West since antiquity. Featuring fascinating historical accounts, philosophical, religious and cultural arguments, including discussions of status, gender and race, the book digs deep into the past for the roots of our current notions and prejudices. Three central themes emerge: how we have perceived and imagined obesity over the centuries; how fat as a substance has elicited disgust and how it evokes perceptions of animality; but also how it has been associated with vitality and fertility. By exploring the complex ways in which fat, fatness and fattening have been perceived over time, this book provides rich insights into the stuff our stereotypes are made of.
A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance
Author: Linda Kalof
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2014-03-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781472554642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Renaissance was a time of immense change in the social, political, economic, intellectual, and artistic arenas of the Western world.The cultural construction of the human body occupied a pivotal role in those transformations. The social and cultural meanings of embodiment revolutionized the intellectual, political, and emotional ideologies of the period. Covering the period from 1400 to 1650, this volume examines the flexible and shifting categories of the body at an unparalleled time of growth in geographical exploration, science, technology, and commerce. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society.
Marks of Civilization
Author: Arnold Rubin
Publisher: University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBody piercing, scarification, tattooing - for thousands of years decorative alteration of the human body has been invested with profound cultural and social meaning. This collection of essays, photographs and drawings focuses on the many and diverse ways that human beings have permanently decorated their bodies.
A Cultural History of the Human Body: In antiquity
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Published: 2010
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBodily Extremities
Author: Florike Egmond
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1351955063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA strong preoccupation with the human body - often manifested in startling ways - is a characteristic shared by early modern Europeans and their present-day counterparts. Whilst modern manifestations of this interest include body piercing, tattoos, plastic surgery and eating disorders, early modern preoccupations encompassed such diverse phenomena as monstrous births and physical deformity, body snatching, public dissection, flagellation, judicial torture and public punishment. This volume explores such extreme manifestations of early modern bodily obsessions and fascinations, and their wider cultural significance. Agreeing that an interest in physical boundaries, extreme physical manifestations and situations developed and grew stronger during the early modern period, the essays in this volume investigate whether this interest can be traced in a wider range of cultural phenomena, and should therefore be given a prominent place in any future characterization of the early modern period. Taken as a whole, the volume can be read as an attempt to create a new context in which to explore the cultural history of the human body, as well as the metaphors of research and investigation themselves.
Culture and the Human Body
Author: John W. Burton
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 148
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A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire
Author: Michael Sappol
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781350049765
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The "long nineteenth century" was an age of empire and empire builders, of state formation and expansion, and of colonial and imperial wars and conquest throughout most of the world. It was also an age that saw enormous changes in how people gave meaning to and made sense of the human body. Spanning the period from 1800 to 1920, this volume takes up a host of topics in the cultural history of the human body, including the rise of modern medicine and debates about vaccination, the representation of sexual perversity, developments in medical technology and new conceptions of bodily perfection. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Adam's Navel
Author: Michael Sims
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2003-07-31
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0713995688
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA tour of the body, telling the natural (evolutionary) history of each part, and the cultural history that records our response to it. Starting with the head, it moves down, chapter-by-chapter to end with the feet. Chapter titles include Samson'sHair, What's an Eye Without an Eyebrow? A Brief History of Navel-Gazing and Why do Men Have Nipples? With memorable insights, amusing anecdotes and revelations on every page.
