Past bodies : body-centered research in archaeology / edited by Dušan Borić and John Robb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borić, Dušan.

Robb, John, 1962 March 18-

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology).

Human body--Symbolic aspects.

Human body.

Human body--Social aspects.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

viii, 151 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, [2008]

Contents:

Body theory in archaeology / Dušan Borić and John Robb

The corporeal politics of being in the Neolithic / Douglass Bailey

Changing beliefs in the human body in prehistoric Malta 5000-1500 BC / Simon Stoddart and Caroline Malone

Idealism, the body and the beard in classical Greek art / Robin Osborne

When the flesh is solid but the person is hollow inside : formal variation in hand-modelled figurines from Formative Mesoamerica / Rosemary Joyce

Fractal bodies in the past and present / Chris Fowler

From substantial bodies to the substance of bodies : analysis of the transition from inhumation to cremation during the Middle Bronze Age in Central Europe / Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Katharina C. Rebay

The extraordinary history of Oliver Cromwell's head / Sarah Tarlow

Fresh scars on the body of archaeology : excavating mass-graves at Batajnica, Serbia / Slobodan Mitrović

Meaningless violence and the lived body : the Huron-Jesuit collision of world orders / John Robb

Bodily beliefs and agricultural beginnings in Western Asia : animal-human hybridity re-examined / Preston Miracle and Dušan Borić

Is it 'me' or is it 'mine'? : the Mycenaean sword as a body-part / Lambros Malafouris

Embodied persons and heroic kings in Late Classic Maya imagery / Susan D. Gillespie

Colonised bodies, personal and social / Nan A. Rothschild

The challenge of embodying archaeology / Chris Shilling.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781842173411

1842173413

OCLC:

261178478