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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Table of Contents:
  • Body parts and bodies whole : introduction / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Marie Louise Stig Sørenson, Jessica Hughes
  • Bodies in pieces in the Neolithic Near East / Karina Croucher
  • Parts to a whole : manipulations of the body in prehistoric eastern Mediterranean / Kirsi O. Lorentz
  • 'Deviant' burials in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of central and south eastern Europe / John Chapman
  • Ageing as fragmentation and dis-integration / Joanna Appleby
  • Bronze age bodiness
  • maps and coordinates / Marie Louise Stig Sørenson
  • Cremations : fragmented bodies in the Bronze and Iron Ages / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
  • Reconfiguring anatomy : ceramics, cremation and cosmology in the Late Bronze Age in the Lower Danube / Nona Palincaş
  • Porticos, pillars and severed heads : the display and curation of human remains in the southern French Iron Age / Ian Armit
  • Dissecting the classical hybrid / Jessica Hughes
  • Split bodies in the Late Iron Age/Viking Age of Scandinavia / Lotte Hedeager
  • Heart burial in medieval and early post-medieval central Europe / Estella Weiss-Krejci
  • In the pursuit of knowledge : dissection, post-mortem surgery and the retention of body parts in 18th- and 19th- century Britain / Annia Cherryson.

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