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050	0	0	_aNX650 .B634 _bV35 2017
100	1		_aVallone, Lynne,
245	1	0	_aBig & small : _ba cultural history of extraordinary bodies / _cLynne Vallone.
246	3		_aBig and small.
264		1	_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _c[2017]
264		4	_c©2017
300			_axv, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: people big and people small -- Introduction: the little man -- In the beginning was Tom Thumb -- The dwarf in high and popular culture -- Staging the dwarf -- Lilliputians in blackface -- Introduction: the monstrous giant -- Gigantic mechanical Boy Scouts -- The obese girl -- Afterword: the human measure.
520	8		_aA groundbreaking work that explores human size as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thought Author, scholar, and editor Lynne Vallone has an international reputation in the field of child studies. In this analytical tour-de-force, she explores bodily size difference-particularly unusual bodies, big and small-as an overlooked yet crucial marker that informs human identity and culture. Exploring miniaturism, giganticism, obesity, and the lived experiences of actual big and small people, Vallone boldly addresses the uncomfortable implications of using physical measures to judge normalcy, goodness, gender identity, and beauty. This wide-ranging work surveys the lives and contexts of both real and imagined persons with extraordinary bodies from the seventeenth century to the present day through close examinations of art, literature, folklore, and cultural practices, as well as scientific and pseudo-scientific discourses. Generously illustrated and written in a lively and accessible style, Vallone's provocative study encourages readers to look with care at extraordinary bodies and the cultures that created, depicted, loved, and dominated them.
650		0	_aDwarfs (Persons) in literature.
650		0	_aDwarfs (Persons) in art.
650		0	_aGiants (Folklore) in literature.
650		0	_aGiants (Folklore) in art.
650		0	_aBody size _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aTall people in literature.
650		0	_aTall people in art.
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