LIBROS DEL AUTOR: christos lynteris

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  • Plague Image and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times
    Christos Lynteris
    This edited collection brings together new research by world-leading historians and anthropologists to examine the interaction between images of plague in different temporal and spatial contexts, and the imagination of the disease from the Middle Ages to today. The chapters in this book illuminate to what extent the image of plague has not simply reflected, but also impacted th...
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    207,56 €

  • Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary
    Christos Lynteris
    Nested in debates among anthropologists, philosophers, social theorists and STS scholars, this book argues that global fascination with the ’next pandemic’ stems not so much from anticipation of biological extinction of human species, as from expectation of loss of mastery over human-animal relations, as ontological pivot of humanity. ...
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    85,69 €

  • Framing Animals as Epidemic Villains
    Christos Lynteris
    This book takes a historical and anthropological approach to understanding how non-human hosts and vectors of diseases are understood, at a time when emerging infectious diseases are one of the central concerns of global health. The volume critically examines the ways in which animals have come to be framed as ’epidemic villains’ since the turn of the nineteenth century. Provid...
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    160,79 €

  • Sulphuric Utopias
    Christos Lynteris / Lukas Engelmann
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    43,72 €

  • Ethnographic Plague
    Christos Lynteris
    Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to the configuration of plague at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a focus on research on the Chinese-Russian frontier, where a series of pneumonic plague epi...
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    146,56 €