Thinking through the Body

Archaeologies of Corporeality
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-4613-5198-6
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 532 g

This book is based on the Thinking through the Body workshop held at the University of Wales, Lampeter, in June 1998. We would like to thank the University of Wales, Lampeter, and in particular the Department of Archaeology for financial and other support; the student volunteers for their help in organizing the conference; and the participants for co-operating in preparing their papers for pre-circulation. An exhibition of works by contemporary artists dealing with the body was also held in conjunction with the academic conference and contributed greatly to the intellectual, aesthetic and social atmosphere. We would like to thank all the artists, Ron Dukelow and Cambria Arts for agreeing to participate in the workshop and for organizing and mounting the exhibition. CONTENTS List of Figures and Tables ix List of Contributors xi Introduction: Thinking Through the Body Yannis Hamilakis, Mark Pluciennik and Sarah Tarlow. 1 Part 1: Bodies, Selves and Individuals Introduction Sarah Tarlow. 23 1 Archaeology's humanism and the materiality of the body Julian Thomas. 29 2 Body Parts: personhood and materiality in the earlier Manx neolithic Chris Fowler. 47 3 Moralities of dress and the dress of the dead in early medieval Europe Jos Bazelmans. 71 4 The aesthetic corpse in nineteenth-century Britain Sarah Tarlow. 85 Part 2: Experience and Corporeality Introduction Yannis Hamilakis. 99 5 Feeling through the body:gesture in Cretan Bronze Age Religion Christine Morris and Alan Peatfield. 105 6 The past as oral history: towards an archaeology of the senses Yannis Hamilakis.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamilakis, Yannis

Tarlow, Sarah

Pluciennik, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie: Theorie und Methoden
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie Physische Anthropologie, Paläoanthropologie, Evolutionäre Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Thinking Through the Body.- 1: Bodies, Selves and Individuals.- 1 Archaeology’s humanism and the materiality of the body\.- 2 Body Parts: personhood and materiality in the earlier Manx neolithic.- 3 Moralities of dress and the dress of the dead in early medieval Europe.- 4 The aesthetic corpse in nineteenth-century Britain.- 2: Experience and Corporeality.- 5 Feeling through the body: gesture in Cretan Bronze Age Religion.- 6 The past as oral history: towards an archaeology of the senses.- 7 Ways of eating/ways of being in the later epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant.- 8 Time and Biography: Osteobiography of the Italian neolithic lifespan.- 3: Bodies in/as material culture.- 9 (Un)masking Gender - gold foil (dis)embodiments in late Iron Age Scandinavia.- 10 Re-arranging History: the contested bones of the Oseberg grave.- 11 Art, artefact, metaphor.- 12 Marking the body, marking the land: body as history, land as history: tattooing and engraving in Oceania.- Notes on Contributors.

Über Autor(innen)

is a lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK; he researches and writes on the archaeology and anthropology of the senses and of the consuming body, the socio-politics of the past and prehistoric Greece.
is a lecturer at the Dept. of Archaeology, University of Wales Lampeter, UK, and has published extensively on archaeological theory and the Mesolithic and Neolithic of the Mediterranean.
is a lecturer in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, Leicester University, UK, where she researches and teaches later historical archaeology and archaeological theory.