Cultures of Contagion Delaurenti Beatrice
Cultures of Contagion Delaurenti Beatrice Contagion as process, metaphor, and timely interpretive tool, from antiquity to the twenty-first century.Cultures of Contagion recounts episodes in the…
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Cultures of Contagion Delaurenti Beatrice
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. 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 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.