Introduction: Historicizing the Body
Journal Title: Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review - Year 2015, Vol 20, Issue 20
Abstract
This collection of original studies is intended to bring a contribution to the field of “body studies” and the cultural history of the body. Mediated through language, disciplined by sciences, placed under political control and the medium of social relations, the body continues to escape the rigors of discourses and representations. Under the title Bodies / Matter: Narratives of Corporeality, several articles, field notes, exhibitions and book reviews examine the ways in which the human body has been visually and narratives represented in different historical and scientific contexts.
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Corina Dobos, Alexandra Ion
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