Choreographing history / edited by Susan Leigh Foster

Contributor(s):

Foster, Susan Leigh, 1949- [editor literari]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

sense mediació

Carrier type:

volum

ISBN:

9780253209351

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Contents:

Conté: AN INTRODUCTION TO MOVING BODIES: Choreographing history / Susan Leigh Foster. RESURRECTING HISTORICAL BODIES: Toward a universal language of motion : reflections on a seventeenth-century muscle man / Stephen Greenblatt -- Interval training / John J. MacAloon -- Christian conversion and the challenge of dance / P. Sterling Stuckey. BODILY INTERVENTIONS INTO ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES: Tacit knowledge, courtliness, and the scientist's body / Mario Biagioli -- Music, the Pythagoreans, and the body / Susan McClary -- Agency and history : the demands of dance ethnography / Randy Martin. MOVING THEORY ACROSS BODIES OF PRACTICE: Credit, novels, masturbation / Thomas W. Laqueur -- Advertising every body : images from the Japanese modern years / Miriam Silverberg -- Bodies of doctrine : headshots, Jane Austen, and the Black Indians of Mardi Gras / Joseph Roach. HISTORIANS AS BODIES IN MOTION: Modern dance in the Third Reich : six positions and a coda / Susan A. Manning -- The body's endeavors as cultural practices / Cynthia J. Novack -- Different personas : a history of one's own? / Lena Hammergren. EMBODYING THEORY: Meditations on the patriarchal Pythagorean pratfall and the lesbian Siamesian two-step / Sue-Ellen Case -- Thirteen ways of looking at Choreographing writing / Peggy Phelan -- Bodies of evidence : law and order, sexy machines, and the erotics of fieldwork among physicists / Sharon Traweek. CORPOLOGUE: Bodies and their plots / Hayden White. Bibliography -- Notes on contributors -- Index

Summary: "In Choreographing history, historians of science, sexuality, the arts, and history itself focus on the body, merging the project of writing about the body with theoretical concerns in the writing of history. Contributors examine how bodies are historicized and presented as political, aesthetic, and physical entities, and demonstrate how the very structure of knowledge is affected gy a sustained inquiry into the category of "body". By considering the role of the historian's body itself alongside those historical bodies under investigation, this collection illustrates the kind of multidisciplinary coalition that becomes possible when the body is given serious critical attention. The contributors are Mario Biagioli, Sue-Ellen Case, Susan Leigh Foster, Stephen Greenblatt, Lena Hammergren, Thomas W. Laqueur, John J. Mac Aloon, Susan McClary, Susan A. Manning, Randy Martin, Cynthia J. Novack, Peggy Phelan, Joseph Roach, Miriam Silverberg, P. Sterling Stuckey, Sharon Traweek, and Hayden White" -- Contracoberta

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Llibre	Biblioteca Barcelona	Biblioteca Barcelona BCN Lliure Accés	39 CHO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1900087470
Llibre	Biblioteca Terrassa	Biblioteca Terrassa VALLÈS-J.Oliver	39 CHO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1900087182

Bibliografia pàgines: [235]-247. Índex

"In Choreographing history, historians of science, sexuality, the arts, and history itself focus on the body, merging the project of writing about the body with theoretical concerns in the writing of history. Contributors examine how bodies are historicized and presented as political, aesthetic, and physical entities, and demonstrate how the very structure of knowledge is affected gy a sustained inquiry into the category of "body". By considering the role of the historian's body itself alongside those historical bodies under investigation, this collection illustrates the kind of multidisciplinary coalition that becomes possible when the body is given serious critical attention. The contributors are Mario Biagioli, Sue-Ellen Case, Susan Leigh Foster, Stephen Greenblatt, Lena Hammergren, Thomas W. Laqueur, John J. Mac Aloon, Susan McClary, Susan A. Manning, Randy Martin, Cynthia J. Novack, Peggy Phelan, Joseph Roach, Miriam Silverberg, P. Sterling Stuckey, Sharon Traweek, and Hayden White" -- Contracoberta

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