Bodies—April 2014—The Appendix

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Bodies

April 2014 – Volume 2, Number 2

It is very easy for history to untether and float away into abstractions; but it is far harder for it to do so when we remember that history, no matter what, happens to bodies. Not just our own, but those of others, and indeed of other species, bodies of water, planetary bodies. History itself is a body of knowledge. There’s abstraction here too, but it’s a useful abstraction. It suggests the connectedness of the body being considered: its ability to be born, live, and change.

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Editor-in-Chief: Benjamin Breen
Managing Editor: Felipe Fernandes Cruz
Publisher: Brian Jones
Editor: Christopher Heaney, Amy Kohout
Contributing Editor: Lydia Pyne
Copy Editor: J.R. Jones, Andrea Kinnison, Shannon Nagy

Chapter 1: Human Bodies

1.
Letter from the Editors: Bodies
2.
Mug Shots: A Small Town Noir By Diarmid Mogg
3.
The Beard That Wasn’t: Abe Lincoln’s Whiskers By Sean Trainor
4.
Terrestriality By Joyce Chaplin
5.
A Pirate Surgeon in Panama By Benjamin Breen
6.
Interpreting “Physick”: The Familiar and Foreign Eighteenth-Century Body By Lindsay Keiter
7.
The Aviator’s Heart By Felipe Fernandes Cruz
8.
CSI Buenos Aires: The Crime on Prudan Street By Ryan Edwards

Chapter 2: Bodies on Display

1.
Mozart’s Skull: the Hyrtl Skull Collection at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
2.
Robot of Jihad? A Guide to Tipu’s Tiger By Blake Smith
3.
Flesh Made Wood: The Invention of Artificial Refrigeration By Rebecca Woods
4.
Ditsong’s Dioramas: Putting a Body on a Fossil and a Fossil in a Narrative By Lydia Pyne
5.
On Looking: Friendship and the New Haven Green By Claire Schwartz
6.
El Ñáñigo: A Spirit Dancer Of Afro-Cuba By Linda Rodriguez
7.
Elegy and Effigy By Mari Crabtree
8.
Machu Picchu, Revisited By Kevin Cannon and Christopher Heaney

Chapter 3: Foreign Bodies

1.
Letters to the Editor: Bodies
2.
Where Be Monsters? The Daedalus Sea Serpent and the War for Credibility By Matthew Willis
3.
Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia By Benjamin Breen
4.
Hunting Gorillas in the Land of Cannibals: Making Victorian Field Knowledge in Western Equatorial Africa By Elaine Ayers
5.
The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic By Alex Golub
6.
Hawaii By Jed McGowan
7.
Angelica’s Baby: Pregnancy Narratives in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro By Cassia Roth
8.
Fever to Tell: Interactive Storytelling Online and the History of Philadelphia’s Yellow Fever Outbreak, 1793 By Rachel N. Ponce