Embodied knowledge : perspectives on belief and technology / edited by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig.

Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology--Case studies.

Social archaeology.

Archaeology and history--Case studies.

Archaeology and history.

Human body--Social aspects--History--To 1500.

Human body.

Senses and sensation--Social aspects--History--To 1500.

Senses and sensation.

Learning--Social aspects--History--To 1500.

Learning.

Belief and doubt--Social aspects--History--To 1500.

Belief and doubt.

Technology--Social aspects--History--To 1500.

Technology.

Material culture--History--To 1500.

Material culture.

History.

Technology--Social aspects.

Belief and doubt--Social aspects.

Learning--Social aspects.

Senses and sensation--Social aspects.

Human body--Social aspects.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

154 pages : Illustrations ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2013.

Contents:

Embodied knowledge : reflections on belief and technology : introduction / Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Part I

Introduction to Part I: Belief as practice / Marie Louise Stig Sørensen

Inhumation and cremation : how burial practices are linked to beliefs / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Delusion and disclosure : human disposal and the aesthetics of vagueness / Tim Flohr Sørensen

Material culture, embodiment and the construction of religious knowledge / Mads Dengsø Jessen

Sealed by the cross : protecting the body in Anglo-Saxon England / Helen Foxhall Forbes

The role of healing in the Jesuit mission to China, 1582-1610 / Mary Laven

Protest re-embodied : shifting technologies of moral suasion in India / Jacob Copeman

Part II

Introduction to Part II: Technology as practice / Lise Bender Jørgensen

The language of craftsmanship / Harald Bentz Høgseth

Conceptual knowledge as technologically materialised : a case study of pottery production, consumption and community practice / Sheila Kohring

Many hands make light work : potting and embodied knowledge at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary / Joanna Sofaer and Sandy Budden

Spinning faith / Lise Bender Jørgensen

The sound of fire, taste of copper, feel of bronze, and colours of the cast : sensory aspects of metalworking technology / Maikel Henricus Gerardus Kuijpers

Authors' short biographies and contact details.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781842174906

1842174908

OCLC:

814951926