Body history

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The body history or history of the body is a special history, in which the interdependence of body and society is examined in its historical dimension.

In the history of the body it is assumed that social values ​​and norms, systems of knowledge and ideas, structures and technologies shape the human body - and not just the biological substance. The central question of this special historical science is how social reality is produced and represented by physical practices. Body history is the history of the thematization of the body in theoretical ( theological , philosophical , medical , sports science , anthropological , criminalistic etc.) discourses, in painting , literature , folk culture , legislation , physical culture etc., but also (as far as possible ) the physical experiences or the body memory of the subjects themselves and the technologies that were used for and against them.

The history of human sensory perception is also examined in the history of the senses .

history

The body history is fed by four roots:

  • Since the history of sports has always dealt with the body in motion , the beginnings of body history can be found in the history of physical culture. As soon as the paradigms of sport are questioned and related to social conditions, the history of sports can become body history.
  • The history of body practices developed in France, where as a result of the work of Marcel Mauss and Michel Foucault , Jean-Marie Brohm in particular early on with his magazine Quel Corps? drew the connection from a sociology of the body to a history of the body.
  • In the history of health and disease , the basic biological inventory and social interpretation were discussed at an early stage.
  • In gender history , a distinction is made between gender as a biological unit (sex) and a cultural unit ( gender ).

literature

  • Body Politics  : Journal of body history. 2013ff, ISSN  2196-4793
  • Céard, Jean; Fontaine, Marie Madeleine (ed.): Le corps à la Renaissance. Paris: Aux amateurs de livres 1990. ISBN 2-87841-022-X
  • Duden, Barbara : Body history: a repertory = body history. Wolfenbüttel: Tandem 1990; ISBN 3-927651-02-8
  • Michel Feher (Ed.): Fragments for a history of the human body. New York 1989.
  • Linda Kalof and William Bynum (Eds.): A cultural history of the human body. Oxford: Berg, 2010. 6 volumes. ISBN 1-8452-0495-6
  • Body makes history - history makes body: body history as social history / ed. from the Bielefeld Graduate School for Social History. Bielefeld; Gütersloh: Verl. Für Regionalgeschichte, 2001. ISBN 3-89534-434-6
  • Maren Lorenz : The corporeal past: Introduction to the history of the body. Tübingen: Discord 2000. ISBN 3-89295-696-0

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnd Krüger & John McClelland (eds.): The beginnings of modern sport in the Renaissance. (Articles and sources on sport and society, Vol. 2), London: Arena 1984
  2. ↑ Arnd Krüger : What the History of the Body and the History of Physical Education can learn from one another, in: Gori, Gigliora & Terret, Thierry (ed.): Sport and Education in History: Proceedings of the VIIIth ISHPES Congress (ISHPES -Studies. Publications of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport 12). St. Augustin: Academia 2005, pp. 388-396, ISBN 3-89665-335-0
  3. ↑ Marcel Mauss, "Les techniques du corps", conférence prononcée le May 17, 1934 et publiée pour la première fois par le Journal de psychologie, vol. xxxii, n ° 3-4, 15 mars-15 avril 1936
  4. ↑ Michel Foucault, Surveiller et punir. Naissance de la prison, Paris: Editions Gallimard 2004, ISBN 2-07072-968-0 (German: Monitoring and punishments: The birth of the prison . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1976, ISBN 978-3-518-38771-9 )
  5. ↑ Paris 1975 ff. ISSN  0249-4477
  6. ↑ Anne Barges: Anthropology Sociology et associées au domaine de la maladie et de la médecine in: Introduction aux sciences humaines en médecine (ouvrage collectif), Paris: Editions Ellipses, 2001, p 131-205, ISBN 2729808728
    Patricia Vertinsky: The eternally wounded woman. Women, doctors and exercise in the late nineteenth century. Manchester: Manchester University Press 1990
  7. ↑ Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge Mass., Harvard University Press 1990, ISBN 0-674-54355-6