Hungry Ghosts
Paul Connerton, 19 April 1990
Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Parts I-III
edited by Michel Feher, Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi.
Zone, 480 pp., £35.95, May 1989,0 942299 25 6 Show More
edited by Michel Feher, Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi.
Zone, 480 pp., £35.95, May 1989,
“... it is socially shaped or formed. The social history of the upright posture is a case in point. Georges Vigarello shows how the new European court nobility of the 16th and 17th centuries developed codes of posture and movement in which the bearing of the upright body became a matter of central concern. The strong body needed by the warrior, generally ... ”