Body parts and bodies whole : changing relations and meanings / edited by Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Jessica Hughes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina.

Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig.

Hughes, Jessica.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human remains (Archaeology)--Europe.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Human remains (Archaeology)--Middle East.

Human body--Social aspects--Europe.

Human body.

Human body--Social aspects--Middle East.

Europe--Antiquities.

Europe.

Middle East--Antiquities.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : D. Brown Bk. Co., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the context of the Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body', through which the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many periods. Archaeologists routinely encounter parts of human and animal bodies in their excavations. Such fragmentary evidence has often been created through accidental damage and the passage of time - nevertheless, it can also signify a deliberate and meaningful act of fragmentation.

Contents:

Cover; 1. Body Parts and Bodies Whole: Introduction; 2. Bodies in pieces in the Neolithic Near East; 3. Parts to a whole: Manipulations of the body in prehistoric Eastern Mediterranean; 4. 'Deviant' burials in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Central and South Eastern Europe; 5.Ageing as fragmentation and dis-integration; 6. Bronze Age bodiness - maps and coordinates; 7. Cremations: fragmented bodies in the Bronze and Iron Ages; 8. Reconfiguring anatomy: ceramics, cremation and cosmology in the Late Bronze Age in the Lower Danube

9. Porticos, pillars and severed heads: the display and curation of human remains in the southern French Iron Age; 10. Dissecting the Classical Hybrid; 11. Split Bodies in the Late Iron Age/Viking Age of Scandinavia; 12. Heart burial in medieval and early post-medieval central Europe; 13. In the pursuit of knowledge: Dissection, post-mortem surgery and the retention of body parts in18th- and 19th-century Britain

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-84217-816-4

1-84217-818-0

1-299-48506-5

OCLC:

841909152