Fragments For A History Of The Human Body

Author : Michel Feher,Ramona Naddaff,Nadia Tazi
Publisher : Zone Books
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : CUB:U183024311635

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"The first approach can be called vertical since what is explored here is the human body's relationship to the divine, to the bestial and to the machines that imitate or simulate it. The second approach covers the various junctures between the body's "outside" and "inside": it can therefore be called a "psychosomatic" approach, studying the manifestation - or production - of soul and the expression of emotions through the body's attitudes, and, on another level, the speculations inspired by cenesthesia, pain and death. Finally, the third approach ... brings into play the classical opposition between organ and function by showing how a certain organ or bodily substance can be used to justify or challenge the way human society functions ..." - foreword Part 3.

Author : Michel Feher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Body, Human, Religious aspects
ISBN : 0942299248

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Author : Michel Feher,Ramona Naddaff,Nadia Tazi
Publisher : Zone Books
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015049626149

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Fragments for a History of the Human Body by Michel Feher,Ramona Naddaff,Nadia Tazi Pdf

Part 2 covers the junctures between the body's "outside" and "inside" by studying the manifestations - or production - of the soul and the expression of the emotions and, on another level, by examining the speculations inspired by cenesthesia, pain, and death.

Author : Myra Seaman,Eileen A. Joy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814213049

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Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism by Myra Seaman,Eileen A. Joy Pdf

Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism brings together scholars working in prehistoric, classical, medieval, and early modern studies who are developing, from longer and slower historical perspectives, critical post/humanisms that explore: 1) the significance (historical, sociocultural, psychic, etc.) of human expression and affectivity; 2) the impact of technology and new sciences on what it means to be a human self; 3) the importance of art and literature in defining and enacting human selves; 4) the importance of history in defining the human; 5) the artistic plasticity of the human; 6) the question of a human collectivity--what is the value, and peril, of "being human" or "being post/human" together?; and finally, 7) the constructive, and destructive, relations (aesthetic, historical, and philosophical) of the human to the nonhuman. This volume, edited by Myra Seaman and Eileen A. Joy, insists on the always provisional and contingent formations of the human, and of various humanisms, over time, while also aiming to demonstrate the different ways these formations emerge (and also disappear) in different times and places, from the most ancient past to the most contemporary present. The essays are offered as "fragments" because the authors do not believe there can ever be a "total history" of either the human or the post/human as they play themselves out in differing historical contexts. At the same time, the volume as a whole argues that defining what "the human" (or "post/human") is has always been an ongoing, never finished cultural project.

Author : Katharina Rebay-Salisbury,Marie Louise Stig Sørensen,Jessica Hughes
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Europe
ISBN : NWU:35556040948127

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Body Parts and Bodies Whole by Katharina Rebay-Salisbury,Marie Louise Stig Sørensen,Jessica Hughes Pdf

This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the context of the Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body', through which the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many periods. Archaeologists routinely encounter parts of human and animal bodies in their excavations. Such fragmentary evidence has often been created through accidental damage and the passage of time - nevertheless, it can also signify a deliberate and meaningful act of fragmentation. As a fragment, a part may acquire a distinct meaning through its enchained relationship to the whole or alternatively it may be used in a more straightforward manner to represent the whole or even act as stand-in for other variables. This collection of papers puts bodily fragmentation into a long-term historical perspective. The temporal spread of the papers collected here indicates both the consistent importance and the varied perception of body parts in the archaeological record of Europe and the Near East. By bringing case studies together from a range of locations and time periods, each chapter brings a different insight to the role of body parts and body wholes and explores the status of the body in different cultural contexts. Many of the papers deal directly with the physical remains of the dead body, but the range of practices and representations covered in this volume confirm the sheer variability of treatments of the body throughout human history. Every one of the contributions shows how looking at how the human body is divided into pieces or parts can give us deeper insights into the beliefs of the particular society which produced these practices and representations.

Author : Michel Feher,Ramona Naddaff,Nadia Tazi
Publisher : Zone Books
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015021475705

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Fragments for a History of the Human Body by Michel Feher,Ramona Naddaff,Nadia Tazi Pdf

"The first approach can be called vertical since what is explored here is the human body's relationship to the divine, to the bestial and to the machines that imitate or simulate it. The second approach covers the various junctures between the body's "outside" and "inside": it can therefore be called a "psychosomatic" approach, studying the manifestation - or production - of soul and the expression of emotions through the body's attitudes, and, on another level, the speculations inspired by cenesthesia, pain and death. Finally, the third approach ... brings into play the classical opposition between organ and function by showing how a certain organ or bodily substance can be used to justify or challenge the way human society functions ..." - foreword Part 3.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 147255468X

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A Cultural History of the Human Body by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margaret Clegg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107098381

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Human Remains by Margaret Clegg Pdf

Highlights the importance of best practice in dealing with human remains, and discusses the key ethical and legal issues.

Author : Mark Elvin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0804730911

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Changing Stories in the Chinese World by Mark Elvin Pdf

This is an imaginative evocation and analysis—through the medium of translations (the author’s own) of once popular but now forgotten literature—of the variety of “stories” in terms of which the Chinese have interpreted their lives since the early years of the 19th century.

Author : Andrew S. Curran
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421401508

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The Anatomy of Blackness by Andrew S. Curran Pdf

This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works of anatomy, pro- and anti-slavery tracts, philosophical treatises, and literary texts, Curran shows how naturalists and philosophes drew from travel literature to discuss the perceived problem of human blackness within the nascent human sciences. He also describes how a number of now-forgotten anatomists revolutionized the era’s understanding of black Africans and charts the shift of the slavery debate from the moral, mercantile, and theological realms toward that of the “black body” itself. In tracing this evolution, he shows how blackness changed from a mere descriptor in earlier periods into a thing to be measured, dissected, handled, and often brutalized. "A definitive statement on the complex, painful, and richly revealing topic of how the major figures of the French Enlightenment reacted to the enslavement of black Africans, often to their discredit. The fields of race studies and of Enlightenment studies are more than ready to embrace the type of analysis in which Curran engages, and all the more so in that his book is beautifully written and illustrated."—Symposium "This is an important contribution to an important topic. But it is also a model of how intellectual history should be done."—New Books in History "The breadth of Andrew Curran's knowledge about the Enlightenment is astonishing . . . The book makes the convincing point not only that Africa is a major focus in the Enlightenment's imagination, but also that natural history and anthropology are central to understanding not only its scientific agenda, but also its humanitarian politics."—Centaurus "Curran's Francotropism and medical background enable him to develop insights that should prove important to the ongoing transnationalization and discipline-blurring of literary and cultural studies."—Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment "Curran's ability to dissect and explain complicated arguments of the period's major thinkers is impressive."—Choice

Author : Bessel A. Van der Kolk
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780143127741

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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. Van der Kolk Pdf

Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.

Author : Christine Kenneally
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781458798701

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The Invisible History of the Human Race by Christine Kenneally Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of 2014 We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? What role does Neanderthal DNA play in our genetic makeup? How did the theory of eugenics embraced by Nazi Germany first develop? How is trust passed down in Africa, and silence inherited in Tasmania? How are private companies like Ancestry.com uncovering, preserving and potentially editing the past? In The Invisible History of the Human Race, Christine Kenneally reveals that, remarkably, it is not only our biological history that is coded in our DNA, but also our social history. She breaks down myths of determinism and draws on cutting - edge research to explore how both historical artefacts and our DNA tell us where we have come from and where we may be going.

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes,Loic Wacquant
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761940340

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Commodifying Bodies by Nancy Scheper-Hughes,Loic Wacquant Pdf

With rapid developments in reproductive medicine, transplant ethics and bioethics, a new `ethic of parts' has emerged in which the body is increasingly seen as a commodity which can be bartered, sold or stolen. This book combines perspectives from anthropology and sociology to offer compelling new readings of the body.

Author : Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046343219

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Fragmentation and Redemption by Caroline Walker Bynum Pdf

Arguing that historians must write in a comic mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompletion, Caroline Walker Bynum here examines diverse medieval texts to show how women were able to appropriate dominant social symbols in ways that allowed for the emergence of their own creative voices. By arguing for the positive importance attributed to the body, these essays give a new interpretation of gender in medieval texts and of the role of asceticism and mysticism in Christianity.

Author : Talal Asad
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804747687

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Formations of the Secular by Talal Asad Pdf

Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East. Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the terrain it allegedly covers. He argues that while anthropologists have oriented themselves to the study of the “strangeness of the non-European world” and to what are seen as non-rational dimensions of social life (things like myth, taboo, and religion),the modern and the secular have not been adequately examined. The conclusion is that the secular cannot be viewed as a successor to religion, or be seen as on the side of the rational. It is a category with a multi-layered history, related to major premises of modernity, democracy, and the concept of human rights. This book will appeal to anthropologists, historians, religious studies scholars, as well as scholars working on modernity.