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1 online resource (148 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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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 |
| 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Human remains (Archaeology) -- Europe
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Human remains (Archaeology) -- Middle East
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Europe
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Middle East
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Antiquities
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Human remains (Archaeology)
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Mänskliga kvarlevor.
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Människokroppen -- sociala aspekter.
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Europe -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045632
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Middle East -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004414
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Europe
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Middle East
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina, editor.
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Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig, editor.
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Hughes, Jessica, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781842178188 |
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1842178180 |
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