Curiosity as Object: Egyptian Mumia in Early Modern Europe
| dc.contributor.author | Kales, Spencer | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-20T17:19:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-20T17:19:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description | 10 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Throughout human history, people have maintained beliefs and practices that were meant to sustain health even though they seem, to the modern inquirer, to be quite ridiculous. A common source of medicinal material throughout history (even as recent as the 20th century in some cases) was human remains, either long dead or freshly deceased. One of these human-based ‘panaceas’ was mumia, the pulverized or tinctured extract of human corpses—mummies—mostly from Egypt. A variety of products fell under this designation, and could be found in wide temporal and geographical range. The paper will address the procurement, manufacture, sale, and distribution of this macabre cure in order to argue that its ubiquitous nature led to its eventual fall from popularity. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kales, S. (2014). Curiosity as Object: Egyptian Mumia in Early Modern Europe. Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal, 7(1). doi:10.5399/uo/ourj.7.1.5 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.5399/uo/ourj.7.1.5 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2160-617X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/23427 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Curiosity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Egyptian mumia | en_US |
| dc.title | Curiosity as Object: Egyptian Mumia in Early Modern Europe | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |