| Description |
xii, 262 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Note |
Based on the Thinking through the Body workshop held at the University of Wales, Lampeter, June 1998. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Archaeology's humanism and the materiality of the body / Julian Thomas -- Body parts : personhood and materiality in the earlier Manx neolithic / Chris Fowler -- Moralities of dress and the dress of the dead in early medieval Europe / Jos Bazelmans -- Aesthetic corpse in nineteenth-century Britain / Sarah Tarlow -- Feeling through the body : gesture in Cretan Bronze Age religion / Christine Morris and Alan Peatfield -- Past as oral history : towards an archaeology of the senses / Yannis Hamilakis -- Ways of eating/ways of being in the Later Epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant / Brian Boyd -- Time and biography : osteobiography of the Italian Neolithic lifespan / John Robb -- (Un)masking gender-- gold foil (dis)embodiments in Late Iron Age Scandinavia / Ing-Marie Back Danielsson -- Re-arranging history : the contested bones of the Oseberg grave / Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh -- Art, artefact, metaphor / Mark Pluciennik -- Marking the body, marking the land : body as history, land as history : tattooing and engraving in Oceania / Paul Rainbird. |
| Subject |
Social archaeology -- Congresses.
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Human body -- Social aspects -- History -- Congresses.
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Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- History -- Congresses.
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Prehistoric peoples -- Congresses.
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Human remains (Archaeology) -- Congresses.
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Material culture -- History -- Congresses.
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Hamilakis, Yannis, 1966-
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Pluciennik, Mark, 1953-
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Tarlow, Sarah, 1967-
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| ISBN |
0306466481 |
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9780306466489 |
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