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Thinking through the Body

Archaeologies of Corporeality

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Bodies, Selves and Individuals

  3. Experience and Corporeality

  4. Bodies in/as Material Culture

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About this book

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Southampton, Southampton, England

    Yannis Hamilakis

  • University of Wales, Lampeter, Wales, UK

    Mark Pluciennik

  • University of Leicester, Leicester, England

    Sarah Tarlow

About the editors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Thinking through the Body

  • Book Subtitle: Archaeologies of Corporeality

  • Editors: Yannis Hamilakis, Mark Pluciennik, Sarah Tarlow

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0693-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46648-9Published: 31 December 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5198-6Published: 25 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0693-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 262

  • Topics: Archaeology, Sociology, general, Anthropology, History, general

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