3. Bodies and Spices in the Early Modern European, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Worlds

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations and Tables 7
4. Acknowledgements 9
5. Foreword 11
6. 1. Introduction: The Bodies of Makers 15
7. Part I Making and Embodied Knowledge
8. 2. Bodies and Gender Identities in the Making of Silk Fibre in Seventeenth-Century France 37
9. 3. Bodies and Spices in the Early Modern European, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Worlds 65
10. 4. Attending to the Tacit; or, Knowledge Trickles Upwards 89
11. Part II Remaking and Embodied Experiences
12. 5. ‘Your Companions Will Teach You’: Makers’ Knowledge in Renaissance Cosmetics Recipes 109
13. 6. Beautiful Experiments : Reading and Reconstructing Early Modern European Cosmetic Recipes 135
14. 7. Remaking Sixteenth-Century Botanical Woodblocks : Embodied Artisanal Knowledge in Early Modern Woodcutting 163
15. 8. Generating Bodies: Investigating Foundation Garments and Maternity Through Making 185
16. Index 211