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Body Parts and Bodies Whole (Hardcover)
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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
acquire a distinct meaning through its enchained relationship to
the whole or alternatively it may be used in a more straightforward
manner to represent the whole or even act as stand-in for other
variables. This collection of papers puts bodily fragmentation into
a long-term historical perspective. The temporal spread of the
papers collected here indicates both the consistent importance and
the varied perception of body parts in the archaeological record of
Europe and the Near East. By bringing case studies together from a
range of locations and time periods, each chapter brings a
different insight to the role of body parts and body wholes and
explores the status of the body in different cultural contexts.
Many of the papers deal directly with the physical remains of the
dead body, but the range of practices and representations covered
in this volume confirm the sheer variability of treatments of the
body throughout human history. Every one of the contributions shows
how looking at how the human body is divided into pieces or parts
can give us deeper insights into the beliefs of the particular
society which produced these practices and representations.
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