What is the archaeology of the body and how can it change the way we experience the past? This book, one of the first to appear on the subject, records and evaluates the emergence of this new direction of cross-disciplinary research, and examines the potential of incorporating some of its insights into archaeology. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and teachers in archaeology, as well as in cognate disciplines such as anthropology and history.
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What is the archaeology of the body and how can it change the way we experience the past? This book, one of the first to appear on the subject, records and evaluates the emergence of this new direction of cross-disciplinary research, and examines the potential of incorporating some of its insights into archaeology.
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List of Figures and Tables. List of Contributors. Introduction: Thinking Through the Body; Y. Hamilakis, et al. Part 1: Bodies, Selves and Individuals. Introduction; S. Tarlow. 1. Archaeology's humanism and the materiality of the body; J. Thomas. 2. Body Parts: personhood and materiality in the earlier Manx neolithic; C. Fowler. 3. Moralities of dress and the dress of the dead in early medieval Europe; J. Bazelmans. 4. The aesthetic corpse in nineteenth-century Britain; S. Tarlow. Part 2: Experience and Corporeality. Introduction; Y. Hamilakis. 5. Feeling through the body: gesture in Cretan Bronze Age Religion; C. Morris, A. Peatfield. 6. The past as oral history: towards an archaeology of the senses; Y. Hamilakis. 7. Ways of eating/ways of being in the later epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant; B. Boyd. 8. Time and Biography: Osteobiography of the Italian neolithic lifespan; J. Robb. Part 3: Bodies in/as Material Culture. Introduction; M. Pluciennik. 9. (Un)masking Gender - gold foil (dis)embodiments in late Iron Age Scandinavia; I.-M. Back Danielsson. 10. Re-arranging History: the contested bones of the Oseberg grave; E. Arwill-Nordbladh. 11. Art, artefact, metaphor; M. Pluciennik. 12. Marking the body, marking the land: body as history, land as history: tattooing and engraving in Oceania; P. Rainbird. Notes on Contributors.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781461351986
Publisert
2012-09-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Vekt
537 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Biographical note

Yannis Hamilakis is a lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK; he researches and writes on the archaeology and anthropology of the senses and of the consuming body, the socio-politics of the past and prehistoric Greece.
Mark Pluciennik is a lecturer at the Dept. of Archaeology, University of Wales Lampeter, UK, and has published extensively on archaeological theory and the Mesolithic and Neolithic of the Mediterranean.
Sarah Tarlow is a lecturer in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, Leicester University, UK, where she researches and teaches later historical archaeology and archaeological theory.