Le propre et le sale
by Georges Vigarello
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This lucid and imaginative study uses the French experience to examine one fundamental aspect of the 'civilizing process': the way in which, over the past millennium, attitudes to and perceptions of human cleanliness, health and hygiene have changed, as have the moral properties attributed to the human body. Such changes are clearly manifest in the history of bathing, and Professor Vigarello demonstrates that the use of water for cleanliness has been by no means constant since the Middle show more Ages: the medieval ideal of visible purity (effectively meaning face and hands only) was replaced by modern notions of hygiene, which in turn reflected the growing concern for personal privacy. Clothes, in particular linen, assumed major importance in the creation of a new physical space for cleanliness; and scientific, bourgeois concepts of 'vigour' and bodily health, related to personal hygiene, gradually transformed the superficial aristocratic purity of earlier generations. show lessTags
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brilliant, but refers mainly to France
Desde el concepto de limpieza entre la nobleza durante la edad media -tener limpias las manos y el rostro, llevar una indumentaria decente y no rascarse los piojos demasiado ostentosamente- hasta el cuarto de baño del apartamento burgués o las cabinas de duchas de los establecimientos populares, Georges Vigarello pasa revista a la historia de la higiene del cuerpo desde la edad media. Sin embargo, una historia de la limpieza corporal es también una historia social, y así, del mismo modo que una `sociedad de corte` es diferente de una sociedad `burguesa`, la limpieza en el siglo XVII se preocupa esencialmente de la ropa y de la apariencia inmediata, mientras que posteriormente se tendrá más en cuenta la preservación de los show more organismos o la defensa de la población. Apoyándose en las hipótesis propuestas por el sociólogo alemán Norbert Elias, Lo limpio y lo sucio nos muestra el `proceso de civilización` que caracteriza a las sociedades occidentales entre el siglo XII y el XIX. show less
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Georges Vigarello is Professor in the University of Paris-V and Director of Studies in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
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- Canonical title*
- Le propre et le sale. L'hygiène du corps depuis le Moyen Age
- Original title
- Le propre et le sale. L'hygiène du corps depuis le Moyen Age
- Original publication date
- 1985-02-01 (1e édition originale française, L'univers historique, Seuil) (1e édition originale française, L'univers historique, Seuil)
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- Original language*
- Français
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Anthropology, Sociology, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 391.64 — Society, government, & culture Customs, etiquette & folklore Costume and personal appearance Personal appearance
- LCC
- GT2845 .V54 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Manners and customs (General) Manners and customs (General) Customs relative to private life
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- Languages
- 8 — English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 14
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