The History of the Body

In Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific de Barbara Creed, Jeanette Hoorn

Publié par Pluto Press Australia, 2001 ISBN 1864031840, 9781864031843 - 296 pages

http://books.google.fr/books?id=Y2G69AgxqxQC&dq=KABRIS+ROUEN&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0

Body Trade explores the history of the South Pacific traffic in human bodies from the eighteenth century to the present. Scholars from art history, cultural studies, anthropology, literature, and film examine the 'captive body' as it is represented in a range of media - from Captain Cook's Journals and Melville's novels to contemporary painting, popular culture, and such movies as Jedda, Meet Me In St Louis and The Murmuring. Revisiting Europe's colonial project in the Pacific, Body Trade exposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and intriguing contribution to the study of the postcolonial body.

http://blogs.utexas.edu/cwgs/2012/03/cfp-the-history-of-the-body/


Call for Papers: Second Annual Washington University in St. Louis Graduate
History Conference: The History of the Body

October 26-27, 2012 at Washington University in St. Louis

Keynote speaker: Professor Leor Halevi, Vanderbilt University

The Graduate Conference Committee of the History Department at Washington
University in St. Louis invites graduate students to submit proposals for
its second annual Graduate Conference.

We welcome interdisciplinary submissions for this broadly conceived topic,
and are excited to see in what new and creative directions participants
will take this theme. For example, the “History of the Body” might include
bodies used for political and religious expression, gender and the body,
sexualities, the body politic, the transgression of boundaries, the
movement of people, changing ideas of “good” and “bad” bodies over time,
and the idea of bodies in the formation and appropriation of personal and
impersonal spaces. Very literal uses of the “body” as well as more
representational and less-direct approaches are equally welcome.

The Graduate History Conference chooses a biennial rotating theme,
allowing for deeper examination of historical problems and questions over
a period of time. This year will be the second year to explore the
“History of the Body,” and we are eager to see how this provocative topic
will develop in the concluding installment of the conference.

Deadline for submission of proposals: June 1, 2012

Proposals for papers should be between 200-300 words. Final papers should
be approximately 20 minutes in length. Individual papers as well as
proposals for panels will be considered. We welcome new as well as
returning presenters. Please submit proposals to the conference website,
http://history.artsci.wustl.edu/GHA/Conference/Submissions. For any
questions please contact Ethan Bennett at ethanrbennett@gmail.com.

Comments

[custom car accessories]

The article throws light upon the origin of body. Body Trade explores the history in and around the places of South Pacific traffic in human bodies, dating back to 18th centuries and until now. It clearly describes the need to follow captives.