Right Body, Wrong Body?

The catalogue of the Estonian National Museum’s exhibition Right Body, Wrong Body? channels new Estonian research that sheds light on the body’s cultural meanings. Both the exhibition and this collection of articles delve more deeply into aspects and problems that have been salient in the past but also spark discussions and debates today: the body in different stages of life, food and health, beauty and morality, the idea of the ’body national’, suffering, and the technological body. Culture scholars convey their views of the body from the viewpoints of various disciplines, based on diverse methods used in the humanities. The curators and contributors point to the dynamic of body-related norms over time and space, and diverse, changing and conflicting body experiences both at the national and individual level.