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…
Specifikacia 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. 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
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