Cultures of Contagion - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262045915 ISBN 13 : 9780262045919

Editeur : The MIT Press, 2021

Synopsis

Contagion as process, metaphor, and timely interpretive tool, from antiquity to the twenty-first century.

Cultures of Contagion recounts episodes in the history of contagions, from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It considers contagion not only in the medical sense but also as a process, a metaphor, and an interpretive model--as a term that describes not only the transmission of a virus but also the propagation of a phenomenon. The authors describe a wide range of social, cultural, political, and anthropological instances through the prism of contagion--from anti-Semitism to migration, from the nuclear contamination of the planet to the violence of Mao's Red Guard.

The book proceeds glossary style, with a series of short texts arranged alphabetically, beginning with an entry on aluminum and "environmental contagion" and ending with a discussion of writing and "textual resemblance" caused by influence, imitation, borrowing, and plagiarism. The authors--leading scholars associated with the Center for Historical Research (CRH, Centre de recherches historiques), Paris--consider such topics as the connection between contagion and suggestion, "waltzmania" in post-Terror Paris, the effect of reading on sensitive imaginations, and the contagiousness of yawning. They take two distinct approaches: either examining contagion and what it signified contemporaneously, or deploying contagion as an interpretive tool. Both perspectives illuminate unexpected connections, unnoticed configurations, and invisible interactions.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Béatrice Delaurenti is Associate Professor in History at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Paris. Thomas Le Roux is Associate Professor of Research in History at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and coauthor (with François Jarrige) of The Contamination of the Earth (MIT Press). Delaurenti and Le Roux are Directors of the Center for Historical Research (CRH, Centre de recherches historiques) of the EHESS.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262045915
• ISBN 13: 9780262045919
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Éditeur: Delaurenti Beatrice, Le Roux Thomas
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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