Patricia (Hrsg.) Skinner

Approaching Facial Difference

Past and Present

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What is a face and how does it relate to personhood? Approaching Facial Difference: Past and Present offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the many ways in which faces have been represented in the past and present, focusing on the issue of facial difference and disfigurement read in the light of shifting ideas of beauty and ugliness. Faces are central to all human social interactions, yet their study has been much overlooked by disability scholars and historians of medicine alike. By examining the main linguistic, visual and material approaches to the face from antiquity to contemporary times, contributors place facial diversity at the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Cock, Emily (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-350-02831-9
EAN: 9781350028319
Produktnummer: 26369670
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 264 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 4'303 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 15 bw illus

Über den Autor

Patricia Skinner is Research Professor in History at Swansea University, UK. She is also co-editor of Social History of Medicine.Emily Cock is Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research at Swansea University, UK.