Body matters : exploring the materiality of the human body / edited by Luci Attala and Louise Steel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Attala, Luci, editor.

Steel, Louise, editor.

Series:

Materialities in anthropology and archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Human body (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xviii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2019.

Contents:

1 Introduction p. 1 / Luci Attain and Louise Steel

2 Bodies that co-create: The residues and intimacies of vital materials p. 19 / Eloise Govier

3 'I am apple': Relationships of the flesh. Exploring the corporeal entanglements of eating plants in the Amazon p. 39 / Luci Attala

4 Cooled, cured and sedimented: Reforming and edifying the hydrocentric infants of northwestern Amazonia p. 63 / Elizabeth Rahmen

5 Embodied encounters with the ancestors p. 89 / Louise Steel

6 Becoming a community of substance: The Mun, the mud and the therapeutic art of body painting p. 109 / Kate Nialla and Fayers-Kerr

7 The resuscitation of the twice-hanged man: Miracles and the body in medieval Swansea p. 135 / Harriett Webster

8 Dead and dusted: Exploring the mutable boundaries of the body p. 157 / Ros Coard

9 A cup for any occasion? The materiality of drinking experiences at Kerma p. 173 / Carl Walsh

10 All fingers, no thumbs: The materiality of a medieval relic p. 197 / Janet Burton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1786834154

9781786834157

OCLC:

1061090881