In this thesis I discuss a puzzle originally introduced by Chrysippus of Soli, the third head of the Stoic school who lived during the II to III century B.C. The puzzle involves two individuals in one body: an impossibility. In this work I will offer an argument aiming to elucid…
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Sexual health education has, and will continue to be, an issue that the international community confronts regularly. It has been recognized widely that sexual health is an important aspect of reproductive rights, as well psychological and physical well being. In Iran, the same c…
This dissertation investigates the material and symbolic production of Unani (Greco-Arab) medicine in contemporary India. Unani is a system of medicine derived from the humoral theory of Hippocrates (460–370 B.C.), and makes use of plant, animal and mineral-based drugs to cure c…
Few images from ancient Egypt more poignantly express the extraordinary differences between modern and ancient notions of the sacred than the juxtaposition of Mary and babe, or Christ on a cross, with ithyphallic Min (or Mut!) or Hapi with liquid streaming from his breasts. For …
Commentary about solid or whole body part transplantation, transfusion and donation is well documented and has added to discourse about who gives and receives and how. Commentary about another body part – blood – is, it is argued here, less well developed (Sanner, 2001; Lock, 20…
This thesis is about the processes and practices that underpin everyday life in a Bangladeshi qawmi madrasa, a rather contentious faith-based Islamic schooling system that is very popular among the rural poor. Based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork that took place in Biswa…
This thesis examines a cluster of recent films that feature people of Maghrebi heritage and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced. These films are set in and between the countries of the Maghreb, Franc…
Autofiction has been the subject of much critical investigation in France, yet little of this theory extends to contemporary texts. Furthermore, autofictional theory has, until now, neglected the study of ludic performance – an important feature within the genre –, and this thes…
At the beginnings of the Gothic, in the eighteenth century, there was an anxiety or taboo surrounding consumption and appetite for the Gothic text itself and for the excessive and sensational themes that the Gothic discussed. The female body, becoming a commodity in society, was…
This thesis offers a theoretical investigation into concepts of beauty, the sculptured body and myths of Venus and Medusa, primarily through the works of Igor Mitoraj and Marc Quinn. These themes are transformed and inverted in the Looking-glass towards the trans-body, which is …
Depictions of bodies deviating from the norm due to disease or fantastic abilities can look back on a long-standing tradition in the literature of German-speaking countries. Nonetheless, the abundance of particularly female characters who transgress norms in post-1945 novels, an…
Assuming that ancient traditions were at the very heart of medieval Jewish practices, I question to what extent the care for the dead in medieval Ashkenaz continued and to what extent it differed from the treatment of the body in earlier periods. Were the halakhic norms regardin…
Adults regularly adopt new identities as members of transcommunal associations anthropologically termed sodalities. This study investigates strategies of inclusivity in one such organization, Persatuan Gerak Badan [Body Movement Association, PGB], a school based in Bogor, Indone…
This dissertation examines the ways in which the notion of the postcolonial correlates to Judith Halberstam's idea of queer space and time where, in "[detaching] queerness from sexuality" (1), chronologies represent a "diminishing future [which] creates a new emphasis on the her…
Monstrous Fictions of the Human considers the body as a site of decision between human and monster. Fictions of making and unmaking bodies deemed human or otherwise reveal the tenuous nature of distinctions upon which these definitions are constructed. Such fictions insist on th…
As myriad opinions on the concept of the soul survive from antiquity, it is unlikely that the topic held only a simple theoretical significance. In fact, Greco-Roman philosophers show that the soul (psyche ) is important not only for the delineation of anthropology, but also bec…
This dissertation examines the ways in which Sudanese women employed their everyday dress as a public platform for constructing new national and gendered identities during the nationalist and independence periods of the early twentieth century. Though formally excluded from the …