Past bodies
Subtitle: body-centered research in archaeology
By: edited by Dušan Borić and John Robb.
Contributors: Borić, Dušan.; Robb, John, 1962 Mar. 18-
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9781842173411
Subjects: Human remains (Archaeology); Human body -- Symbolic aspects; Human body -- Social aspects; Excavations (Archaeology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Body theory in archaeology / Dušan Borić and John Robb; title: The corporeal politics of being in the Neolithic / Douglass Bailey; title: Changing beliefs in the human body in prehistoric Malta 5000-1500 BC / Simon Stoddart and Caroline Malone; title: Idealism, the body and the beard in classical Greek art / Robin Osborne; title: When the flesh is solid but the person is hollow inside : formal variation in hand-modelled figurines from Formative Mesoamerica / Rosemary Joyce; title: Fractal bodies in the past and present / Chris Fowler; title: From substantial bodies to the substance of bodies : analysis of the transition from inhumation to cremation during the Middle Bronze Age in Central Europe / Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Katharina C. Rebay; title: The extraordinary history of Oliver Cromwell's head / Sarah Tarlow; title: Fresh scars on the body of archaeology : excavating mass-graves at Batajnica, Serbia / Slobodan Mitrović; title: Meaningless violence and the lived body : the Huron-Jesuit collision of world orders / John Robb; title: Bodily beliefs and agricultural beginnings in Western Asia : animal-human hybridity re-examined / Preston Miracle and Dušan Borić; title: Is it 'me' or is it 'mine'? : the Mycenaean sword as a body-part / Lambros Malafouris; title: Embodied persons and heroic kings in Late Classic Maya imagery / Susan D. Gillespie; title: Colonised bodies, personal and social / Nan A. Rothschild; title: The challenge of embodying archaeology / Chris Shilling.