Criminal Bodies in the West

Iconography and Life after Death
Herausgeber: Schrift, Melissa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the cultural meanings of the criminal body in the west through historical and multidisciplinary frameworks, examining how the criminal corpse held cultural meaning as both repository of power and material relic. This book was first published as a special issue of Mortality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 195g
• ISBN-13: 9781032084169
• ISBN-10: 1032084162
• Artikelnr.: 62150589

Autorenporträt

Melissa Schrift is a Professor of Anthropology at East Tennessee State University, USA. Her current research interests include cultural perceptions of the body and the social history of medicine. She is the author of two books and multiple articles, and has been awarded an American Fellowship for her work on Melugeons.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Life after death: an introduction to the criminal body in the West 2.
The criminal corpse in pieces 3. Curious afterlives: the enduring appeal of
the criminal corpse 4. The commodification of the criminal corpse:
'selective memory' in posthumous representations of criminal 5. Bodies of
Evidence: Criminalising the Celebrity Corpse 6. Criminality, narrative and
the expert witness in American biohistory 7. Osama's body: death of a
political criminal and (Re)birth of a nation