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Past bodies : body-centered research in archaeology /
"This collection of papers is a reaction to decades of the body's invisibility in archaeology. It raises the body as the central topic in the study of past societies, researching its appearance in a wide variety of regional contexts and across vast spans of archaeological time. Contributio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, UK :
Oxbow Books,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Body theory in archaeology / Dušan Borić and John Robb
- The corporeal politics of being in the Neolithic / Douglass Bailey
- Changing beliefs in the human body in prehistoric Malta 5000-1500 BC / Simon Stoddart and Caroline Malone
- Idealism, the body and the beard in classical Greek art / Robin Osborne
- When the flesh is solid but the person is hollow inside : formal variation in hand-modelled figurines from Formative Mesoamerica / Rosemary Joyce
- Fractal bodies in the past and present / Chris Fowler
- From substantial bodies to the substance of bodies : analysis of the transition from inhumation to cremation during the Middle Bronze Age in Central Europe / Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Katharina C. Rebay
- The extraordinary history of Oliver Cromwell's head / Sarah Tarlow
- Fresh scars on the body of archaeology : excavating mass-graves at Batajnica, Serbia / Slobodan Mitrović
- Meaningless violence and the lived body : the Huron-Jesuit collision of world orders / John Robb
- Bodily beliefs and agricultural beginnings in Western Asia : animal-human hybridity re-examined / Preston Miracle and Dušan Borić
- Is it 'me' or is it 'mine'? : the Mycenaean sword as a body-part / Lambros Malafouris
- Embodied persons and heroic kings in Late Classic Maya imagery / Susan D. Gillespie
- Colonised bodies, personal and social / Nan A. Rothschild
- The challenge of embodying archaeology / Chris Shilling.