Institutional Bodies: Spatial Agency and the Dead
Myriam Nafte
In this paper, I argue that the Catholic Church and Western medicine assumed historically significant roles in use circulation of human remains and, so doing, established distinct traditions dissection, preservation, display. Furthermore, both institutions still maintain an essential role making ever more popular culturally acceptable. The uphold various means interaction effectively keep dead undisposed for specific purposes: as forms cultural capital, objects veneration, fetishized, or aestheticized diversion. As such, institutionalized have come to inhabit very particular spaces where they are made perform a variety duties living.
History and Anthropology