
Thinking through the Body
Archaeologies of Corporeality
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 25. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 262 pages
978-1-4613-5198-6 (ISBN)
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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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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XIII, 262 p.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
532 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4613-5198-6 (9781461351986)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-0693-5
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Yannis Hamilakis | Mark Pluciennik | Sarah Tarlow
Thinking through the Body
Archaeologies of Corporeality
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Yannis Hamilakis
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.
Mark Pluciennik 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.
Sarah Tarlow 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.
Mark Pluciennik 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.
Sarah Tarlow 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.
Content
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.