Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin Sarasohn Lisa T.
Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin Sarasohn Lisa T. For most of our time on this planet, vermin were considered humanity's common inheritance. But with the spread of…
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Getting Under Our Skin: The Cultural and Social History of Vermin Sarasohn Lisa T.
For most of our time on this planet, vermin were considered humanity's common inheritance. But with the spread of microscopic close-ups of these creatures, the beginnings of sanitary standards, and the rising belief that cleanliness equaled class, vermin began to provide a way to scratch a different itch: the need to feel superior, and to justify the exploitation of those pronounced ethnically--and entomologically--inferior.In Getting Under Our Skin, Lisa T. Fleas, lice, bedbugs, and rats were universal scourges, as pervasive as hunger or cold, at home in both palaces and hovels.
How did these creatures go from annoyance to social stigma? Sarasohn tells the fascinating story of how vermin came to signify the individuals and classes that society impugns and ostracizes. And how did people thought verminous become considered almost a species of vermin themselves? Focusing