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 (Philosophy).

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (158 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2019]

Summary:

Adopting a novel cross-disciplinary approach, this book demonstrates the value of understanding human bodies as fundamentally influenced and affected by the other materials available in diverse landscapes. Using a rich mix of ethnographic, archaeological and historical examples, it explores the creative roles materials have taken in shaping past and present people's bodies.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Bodies that co-create: The residues and intimacies of vital materials

3. 'I am apple': Relationships of the flesh. Exploring the corporeal entanglements of eating plants in the Amazon

4. Cooled, cured and sedimented: Reforming and edifying the hydrocentric infants of northwestern Amazonia

5. Embodied encounters with the ancestors

6. Becoming a community of substance: The Mun, the mud and the therapeutic art of body painting

7. The resuscitation of the twice-hanged man: Miracles and the body in medieval Swansea

8. Dead and dusted: Exploring the mutable boundaries of the body

9. A cup for any occasion? The materiality of drinking experiences at Kerma

10. All fingers, no thumbs: The materiality of a medieval relic

References

Notes

Glossary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78683-417-0

OCLC:

1385454447