title: [A researcher's itinary on the history of the body].
abstract: As a pioneer of a new field of research, history of the body, Georges Vigarello goes back over his career as a historian, not so much in search of a hypothetical or ultimate unity of the body, but beyond the original dipersion is rather aiming at relating the existence of coherences and unified logics passing through different fields: the body as an object of thought, of representations and practices. In such a perspective, the history of the body sheds light on a specific era, underlines its culture, while indicating its possible homogeneity.
authors.affiliation: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. vigarello@noos.fr
authors.forename: Georges
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vigarello
mesh_terms: D001828:Body Image; D005060:Europe; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D018594:Human Body