... of normative styles and examines them through case studies of the history of physics in Japan—for example, the reception of complementarity and the introduction of Feynman diagrams. The chapter proposes a finer-grained approach to cultures and a renewed emphasis on the transregional aspects of cultures...

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... War. Also explored are the connections between Jackson’s body and the fin de siècle development of a new “physical culture,” which promoted the development (and strengthening) of the physical body. A major aim of the chapter is to explore the ways in which the body of the Black heavyweight boxer...

... Advancing a historical analysis of race, immigration, and disability, Natalia Molina offers an examination of how public health and immigration discourses defined Mexican immigrants as culturally or physically unfit for citizenship. race medicine migration disability ...

... The epilogue outlines the strategies ultimately devised by the major museums to manage and accommodate the call for cultural equity and social justice: the creation of specific physical spaces within the museums in which to show works by artists of color—often restaurant galleries or small...

... The first chapter provides an overview of the sport of boxing in the United States, its place within the critical project of white manhood in the nineteenth century, and its intersections with an increased focus on the physical body as the site of masculinity. A particular focus...

... This chapter draws from ethnographic and cognitive-historical studies of laboratories in the bioengineering sciences to examine how cognition and culture are intimately entwined in research practices. It focuses on the hybrid physical simulation models (“devices”) through which biomedical...

... to strike in public in order to keep a job or physically survive sometimes masked an alternative culture of self-assertion that could be found in the black church, pool halls, and barber shops, and on street corners. Cajuns creoles cultural gumbo Rosenwald schools self-assertion ...

... The introduction describes the origins of Greg Tate’s love of all things Black culture or, more specifically, of Black cognition—the way Black people think, mentally and physically, and how those ways of thinking and being inform artistic choices. Tate describes himself as a child of the 1970s...

... This chapter explores the biocultural myths about the poor. Most of the accepted wisdom about the biological, sociological, and cultural life of the poor is based on misinformation. Looking at race, drunkenness, sexuality, filthiness, physical size, and the like, the chapter debunks the most...

... This chapter establishes a theoretical framework for understanding cultural translations of nature. It explains the significance of the guides as cultural translators who mediate different worlds and move tourists, both physically and affectively. It situates their work in Japanese intellectual...

... This chapter introduces aspects of the sociopolitical, economic, and physical conditions of the Pelourinho neighborhood. By the mid-1990s the ongoing reforms of the Pelourinho had divided the neighborhood into two main areas: a gleaming restored shrine to Bahian culture and an area of decaying...

... In Gayl Jones’s 1975 novel, Corregidora , the protagonist’s great-grandmother repeatedly reminds us that the “evidence” of life lived is sedimented in flesh and bone for generations. This evidence constitutes a “countermemory” that largely fails to fit the official cultural memory of a given...

... This chapter argues that women’s films about other cultures are marketed in North America as humanist fables and that art house exhibition functions as a middle-brow and arguably feminized taste culture. It takes as case studies prominent women directors whose diasporic visions of “home” solicit...

...”) and develops an ethics of interconnectivity, which she describes as the act of reaching through the wounds—wounds which can be physical, psychic, cultural, and/or spiritual–to connect with others. In its intentionally non-oppositional approach, this chapter offers a provocative alternative to some...

... This chapter examines how Black American laypersons and cultural producers in the U.S. South have applied speculative thought to challenge and renarrativize persistent Southern myths that celebrate the antebellum period, forcing narratives of supposed pastoral pasts to confront slavery and its...

..., detailing the material culture of protein crystallography. This chapter pays close attention to the three-dimensionality of protein models, and to distinct affordances of different modeling media, from physical models made of ready-to-hand materials, to proprietary software designed to enable smooth...