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Record Nr.

UNINA9910860807403321

Titolo

Approaching facial difference : past and present / / Patricia Skinner and Emily Cock (eds)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

ISBN

1-350-02830-4

1-350-02832-0

1-350-02831-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 pages)

Collana

Facialities: interdisciplinary approaches to the human face

Altri autori (Persone)

SkinnerPatricia <1965->

CockEmily

Disciplina

153.758

Soggetti

Face - Differentiation

Face perception

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1: Language--Part 2: Visibility--Part 3: Materiality.

Sommario/riassunto

"What is a face and how does it relate to personhood? Approaching Facial Difference: Past and Present offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the many ways in which faces have been represented in the past and present, focusing on the issue of facial difference and disfigurement read in the light of shifting ideas of beauty and ugliness. Faces are central to all human social interactions, yet their study has been much overlooked by disability scholars and historians of medicine alike. By examining the main linguistic, visual and material approaches to the face from antiquity to contemporary times, contributors place facial diversity at the heart of our historical and cultural narratives. This cutting-edge collection of essays will be an invaluable resource for humanities scholars working across history, literature and visual culture, as well as modern practitioners in education and psychology."--Bloomsbury Publishing.