Body Matters Exploring the Materiality of the Human Body
Adopting a novel cross-disciplinary approach, this book demonstrates the value of understanding human bodies as fundamentally influenced and affected by the other materials available in diverse landscapes. Using a rich mix of ethnographic, archaeological and historical examples, it explores the crea...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press
[2019]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Materialities in anthropology and archaeology.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009770715206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Bodies that co-create: The residues and intimacies of vital materials
- 3. 'I am apple': Relationships of the flesh. Exploring the corporeal entanglements of eating plants in the Amazon
- 4. Cooled, cured and sedimented: Reforming and edifying the hydrocentric infants of northwestern Amazonia
- 5. Embodied encounters with the ancestors
- 6. Becoming a community of substance: The Mun, the mud and the therapeutic art of body painting
- 7. The resuscitation of the twice-hanged man: Miracles and the body in medieval Swansea
- 8. Dead and dusted: Exploring the mutable boundaries of the body
- 9. A cup for any occasion? The materiality of drinking experiences at Kerma
- 10. All fingers, no thumbs: The materiality of a medieval relic
- Glossary
- Index
- Back Cover.
