TY - BOOK AU - Beecher,Donald AU - Ciavolella,Massimo AU - Finucci,Valeria AU - Gallerani,Manuela AU - Gubbini,Gaia AU - Lee,Justine C. AU - Mayer,Andreas AU - Paolella,Alfonso AU - Pearl,Sharrona AU - Pireddu,Nicoletta AU - Sutherland,Romy AU - Tomlinson,Megan AU - Touwaide,Alain AU - Vígh,Éva AU - Wilson,Bronwen TI - Physiognomy at the Crossroad of Magic, Science, and the Arts T2 - Medical Traditions , SN - 9783111212746 AV - BF851 .P59 2024 U1 - 138 23/eng/20241002 PY - 2024///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - Physiognomy KW - History KW - Ethnie KW - Kranofaziale KW - Neurophysiologie KW - Schönheitsideale KW - HISTORY / Ancient / General KW - bisacsh KW - Beauty ideals KW - Ethnicity KW - cranofacias KW - neurophysiology N1 - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Contributors --; Introduction --; Revealing and Concealing: Physiognomy and Bodily Signs --; Facial Signs --; Physiognomy: The Origins --; Between the Face and the Skull: Jacopo Ligozzi and the Other Side of the Mirror --; Profiling Deviance, Embodying Passions: Facing and Effacing Character Norms in 19th-century Europe --; Angelica, Clorinda and the descriptio puellae --; Transforming Faces --; Facial Gender-Affirming Surgery: Shaping Physiognomy for Transgender and Gender Non-Congruent Individuals --; Fugitives, Physiognomy, Surgery, and Face Recognition Technology in the Modern Surveillance State --; Modifying One’s Physiognomy in Antiquity --; Faces in Rocks and Trenches: Facial Framings and Post-Colonial Dilemmas in the Australian Cinema of Peter Weir --; Deciphering Faces --; Reading Body Language and Physiognomic Signs in Andrea Mantegna’s Painting The Triumph of Virtue --; The Cult of Beauty and Wellbeing in the Humana Physiognomonia and Other Works by Giovan Battista della Porta --; The French Lavater: Translating Physiognomy into Science in the Late Enlightenment and Beyond --; The Language of Emotions: From the Physiognomy of Giovan Battista della Porta to the Neuroscience --; Folk Psychology and Physiognomy: Competing Strategies for Reading Other Minds --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The essays examine how the study of facial features or expressions as indicative of character or ethnicity, has evolved from the crossroad of magic, religion and primitive medicine to present-day cultural concern for wellness and beauty. In this context, the discoveries of cranio-facial neurophysiology and psychology and the practice of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery have a centuries-old relationship with physiognomy. As the study of outward appearances evolved from its classical roots and self-representations through 18th- and 19th-century adaptations in fiction and travelogues, it gradually became a scientific discipline. Along the way, physiognomy was associated with phrenology and craniology and promoted eugenic policies. Tainted with racial bigotry and biological determinism, it was trapped within questions of delinquency, monstrosity and posthumanism. Throughout its history, physiognomy played both positive and negative roles in the evolution of significant aspects of the socio-cultural order in the West that merit update and in-depth study. The contributions follow a chronological and intertwining sequence to encompass physiognomic expressions in art, literature, spirituality, science, philosophy and cultural studies UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111240671 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111240671 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111240671/original ER -