Body parts and bodies whole : changing relations and meanings

Body parts and bodies whole : changing relations and meanings / edited by Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, and Jessica Hughes.

This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the context of the Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body', through which the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many period...

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Other Authors: Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina (Editor), Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig (Editor), Hughes, Jessica (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Oakville, CT : D. Brown Bk. Co., ©2010.
Subjects:
Human remains (Archaeology) > Europe.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Middle East.
Human body > Social aspects > Europe.
Human body > Social aspects > Middle East.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Antiquities
Human body > Social aspects
Human remains (Archaeology)
Mänskliga kvarlevor.
Människokroppen > sociala aspekter.
Europe > Antiquities.
Middle East > Antiquities.
Europe
Middle East
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Summary:This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the context of the Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body', through which the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many periods. Archaeologists routinely encounter parts of human and animal bodies in their excavations. Such fragmentary evidence has often been created through accidental damage and the passage of time - nevertheless, it can also signify a deliberate and meaningful act of fragmentation. As a fragment, a part may acquir.
Physical Description:1 online resource (148 pages) : illustrations, maps
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781842178188
1842178180
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized

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