{"title":"How to Make an Inca Mummy: Andean Embalming, Peruvian Science, and the Collection of Empire","authors":"C. Heaney","doi":"10.1086/697020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/697020","url":null,"abstract":"As scientific objects, mummies were born of Europe’s encounter with two “ancient” bodily knowledges. The first is well known: the embalmed Egyptian dead who were ground into a materia medica named mumia and later were collected as “mummies” themselves. Yet mummies owe their global possibility—of ancient sciences of embalming and environmental manipulation apprehensible worldwide—to the sixteenth-century Spanish encounter with the Incas’ preserved dead, the yllapa. This article argues that their confiscation and display desecrated their sacred affect, but their recategorization as “embalmed” bodies allowed Indigenous Peruvian writers to argue for the Incas’ lost medical sophistication. European scholars then used that sophistication to establish “mummies” as a comparative category. The original yllapas decayed, blurring both Inca sovereignty and the colonial Latin American sciences that anatomized it, but their imagined resurrection in the preserved bodies of other “ancient Peruvians” turned the “Inca mummy” into a highly collectible scientific object, embodying a newly national past of ancient learning and anti-imperial indictment.","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"234 1","pages":"1 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2018-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73490984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lawrence Squeri. Waiting for Contact: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. x + 233 pp., bibl., index. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2016. $26.95 (cloth).","authors":"D. DeVorkin","doi":"10.1086/695661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/695661","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"300 1","pages":"882-883"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73590443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keith Michael Baker; Jenna M. Gibbs (Editors). Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century. x + 263 pp., figs., index. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. $65 (cloth).","authors":"C. Eriksen","doi":"10.1086/695741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/695741","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"4 4","pages":"907-909"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/695741","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72476865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vincenzo De Risi. Leibniz on the Parallel Postulate and the Foundations of Geometry: The Unpublished Manuscripts. (Science Networks: Historical Studies, 51.) vi + 195 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2016. $119 (cloth).","authors":"D. Jesseph","doi":"10.1086/693528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/693528","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"7 3","pages":"695-696"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72590496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cristian Berco. From Body to Community: Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain. xvi + 264 pp., tables, bibl., index. Toronto/London: University of Toronto Press, 2016. $65 (cloth).","authors":"John Slater","doi":"10.1086/693526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/693526","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"10 6","pages":"698-699"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/693526","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72412285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Miriam Focaccia. Uno Scienziato Galantuomo a Via Panisperna: Pietro Blaserna e la nascita dell’Istituto fisico di Roma. (Biblioteca di Nuncius, 77.) 202 pp., illus., bibl., indexes. Florence: Olschki Editore, 2016. €34 (paper).","authors":"I. Gambaro","doi":"10.1086/693817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/693817","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"26 24","pages":"712-714"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72592598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sofie Lachapelle. Conjuring Science: A History of Scientific Entertainment and Stage Magic in Modern France. xii + 201 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. $95 (cloth).","authors":"J. Gauvin","doi":"10.1086/693760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/693760","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"491 4","pages":"703-705"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1086/693760","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72440917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christophe Bonneuil; Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us. Translated by David Fernbach xiv + 306 pp., figs., illus., index. London/New York: Verso Books, 2016. £16.99 (cloth).","authors":"J. Howe","doi":"10.1086/692349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/692349","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"30 1","pages":"501-502"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72869050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Michael Schüring. “Bekennen gegen den Atomstaat”: Die evangelischen Kirchen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die Konflikte um die Atomenergie, 1970–1990. (Deutsches Museum, Abhandlungen und Berichte, Neue Folge, 31.) 317 pp., bibl., index. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2015. €29.90 (cloth).","authors":"Richard H. Beyler","doi":"10.1086/692414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/692414","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"2 1","pages":"499-501"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73027087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sarah Bridger. Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research. x + 350 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2015. $45 (cloth).","authors":"R. Doel","doi":"10.1086/692377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/692377","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14667,"journal":{"name":"Isis","volume":"24 1","pages":"491-493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73129330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}