Body Research Group

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The interdisciplinary research group focuses on the body as a bio-cultural construct in both antiquity and modernity. Their current research projects and collaborations revolve around the fields of socio-anthropology of body and pain, as well as related socio-religious practices. Some of the researchers address bodily experience and emotions as lived experiences, with an extra focus on aging as a complex process with culture-specific elaborations and socio-political ramifications.

Others focus more on disability studies, ancient and modern patient history, pain history, and the culture-specific conceptions and elaborations of the body in its medical and religious contexts. The group also has a strong interest in artistic representations of bodies and body parts.

One of the examples of individual projects is the De/Constructing the Body: Ancient and Modern Dynamics project.

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University of Liverpool
Liverpool