Project Details
Projekt
The Compared Body: Order in Human Diversity (16th–19th Centuries) (D03 [B01])
Subject Area
Early Modern History
Term
from 2017 to 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317664947
During the first funding period, research focused on practices of comparing that were used to describe and order the population of two early modern contact zones (Pondichéry in South India and Lapland in Sweden). The exploration of juridical sources showed that the different elements of comparison shifted increasingly from religious to ethnic and bodily attributions during the 18th century. Therefore, the second funding period is focusing on the role of the body within practices of comparing. It will use depictions of the population of the Ottoman Empire and the Jewish population of Central Europe as case studies.
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Applicant Institution
Universität Bielefeld
Project Heads
Professorin Dr. Christina Brauner, until 12/2020; Professorin Dr. Antje Flüchter
