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In Choreographing History, historians of science, sexuality, the arts, and history itself focuses on the body, merging the project of writing about the body with theoretical concerns in the writing of history.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
An Introduction to Moving Bodies
Choreographing History¿Susan Leigh Foster
Resurrecting Historical Bodies
Toward a Universal Language of Motion: Reflections on a Seventeenth-Century Muscle Man¿Stephen Greenblatt
Interval Training¿John MacAloon
Bodily Interventions into Academic Disciplines
Tacit Knowledge, Courtliness, and the Scientist's Body¿Mario Biagioli
Music, the Pythagoreans, and the Body¿Susan McClary
Agency and History: The Demands of Dance Ethnography¿Randy Martin
Moving Theory Across Bodies of Practice
Credit, Novels, Masturbation¿Thomas W. Laqueur
Advertising Every Body: Images from the Japanese Modern Years¿Miriam Silverberg
Bodies of Doctrine: Headshots, Jane Austen, and the Black Indians of Mardi Gras¿Joseph Roach
Historians as Bodies in Motion
Modern Dance in the Third Reich: Six Positions and a CodäSusan A. Manning
The Body's Endeavors as Cultural Practices¿Cynthia J. Novak
Different Personas: A History of One's Own?¿Lena Hammergren
Embodying Theory
Meditations on the Patriarchal Pythagorean Pratfall and the Lesbian Siamesia Two-Step¿Sue-Ellen Case
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Choreographing Writing¿Peggy Phelan
Bodies of Evidence: Law and Order, Sexy Machines, and the Erotics of Fieldwork among Physicists¿Sharon Traweek
Bodies and Their Plots¿Hayden White
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
SUSAN LEIGH FOSTER, Professor and Chair of the Department of Dance at the University of California, Riverside, is the author of Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance.
Summary
How the human body is involved in the creation and illustration of ideas.
