Organic memory: history and the body in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

The Role of the German Researchers in the Formation of Islamic Art Studies

In the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the increasing interest of the Europeans in the culture of the East, the first articles on the Islamic art and culture were appeared in German-speaking countries. In the mid nineteenth century, some entries in German encyclopedias were devoted to Islamic art, and from the end of the century, the first monographs on Islamic architecture and orname...

بررسی شواهد تأثیر معماری پارسی بر معماری دورۀ مائوریایی هندوستان

The Indian subcontinent was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire, located at the far eastern end of Achaemenid territories. It was the last part of Achaemenid lands taken over by Alexander of Macedon after his invasion. In the meantime, Chandragupta, whether after a battle or by treaty with the successor of Alexander in Asia (Seleucus I Nicator) established some degree of autonomy and founded the...

Dental caries in a Portuguese identified skeletal sample from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Medical officers of health and infant mortality: the case of Kingston-Upon-Thames in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

[Discourses on the body, the 'human motor', energy and fatigue: cultural hybridations in fin-de-siècle Argentina].

This work investigates some discourses that emerged about the body, the 'human motor', energy and fatigue in Argentina between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on this inquiry an attempt is made to show how the hybrid nature of these scientifically purified formulations participated in the construction of biopolitical knowledge (organic economy) that projected the body i...