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The material body Embodiment, history and archaeology in industrialising England, 1700-1850
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Craig-Atkins, Elizabeth, Editor.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester Manchester University Press 2024
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Material Body exploits the possibilities of studying the material body in the past primarily through the sources and approaches of archaeology, history and material culture studies. Together, these seven chapters draw upon collections of human remains, material culture and documentary evidence from Britain during the period 1700-1850; major themes are gender, class, age, disability and maternity. Some contributions are co-authored by a historian and archaeologist; others are single authored. But each chapter explores the lived experiences of the material body drawing on disciplines which share an interest in the material or embodied turn. The volume demonstrates new interdisciplinary ways of looking at experiences of the body. It brings together archaeological and historical data to reconstruct embodied experiences and represents the first collection of genuinely collaborative scholarship by historians and archaeologists.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-5277-0
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