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Author : Joanna R. Sofaer
Release : 2006-02-16
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 468/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Body as Material Culture by : Joanna R. Sofaer
Download or read book The Body as Material Culture written by Joanna R. Sofaer. This book was released on 2006-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the two distinct approaches taken when examining archaeological remains, one based on science, the other on social theory.
Author : Joanna R. Sofaer
Release : 2006-02-16
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 097/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Body as Material Culture by : Joanna R. Sofaer
Download or read book The Body as Material Culture written by Joanna R. Sofaer. This book was released on 2006-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodies intrigue us. They promise windows into the past that other archaeological finds cannot by bringing us literally face to face with history. Yet 'the body' is also highly contested. Archaeological bodies are studied through two contrasting perspectives that sit on different sides of a disciplinary divide. On one hand lie science-based osteoarchaeological approaches. On the other lie understandings derived from recent developments in social theory that increasingly view the body as a social construction. Through a close examination of disciplinary practice, Joanna Sofaer highlights the tensions and possibilities offered by one particular kind of archaeological body, the human skeleton, with particular regard to the study of gender and age. Using a range of examples, she argues for reassessment of the role of the skeletal body in archaeological practice, and develops a theoretical framework for bioarchaeology based on the materiality and historicity of human remains.
Author : Joanna R. Sofaer
Release : 2006-02-16
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 223/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Body as Material Culture by : Joanna R. Sofaer
Download or read book The Body as Material Culture written by Joanna R. Sofaer. This book was released on 2006-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skeletal remains are a vital source of evidence for archaeologists. Their interpretation has tended to take two divergent forms: the scientific and the humanistic. In this innovative study, Joanna Sofaer Derevenski argues that these approaches are unnecessarily polarized and that one should not be pursued without the other. Exploring key themes such as sex, gender, life cycle and diet, she argues that the body is both biological object and cultural site and is not easily detached from the objects, practices and landscapes that surround it.
Author : Judy Attfield
Release : 2020-09-17
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Wild Things by : Judy Attfield
Download or read book Wild Things written by Judy Attfield. This book was released on 2020-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total virtuality threatens to engulf us? This pioneering book bridges design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object relations. The act of consumption is only the starting point of object's “lives”. Thereafter they are transformed and invested with new meanings and associations that reflect and assert who we are. Defining designed things as “things with attitude” differentiates the highly visible fashionable object from ordinary aretefacts that are too easily taken for granted. Through case studies ranging from reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to 'clutter', the author traces the connection between objects and authenticity, ephemerality and self-identity. Beyond this, she shows the materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body and suggests a transition with the passing of time from embodiment to disembodiment.
Author : Elizabeth Hallam
Release : 2020-05-26
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 196/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Death, Memory and Material Culture by : Elizabeth Hallam
Download or read book Death, Memory and Material Culture written by Elizabeth Hallam. This book was released on 2020-05-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - How do the living maintain ongoing relationships with the dead in Western societies? - How have the residual belongings of the dead been used to evoke memories? - Why has the body and its material environment remained so important in memory-making? Objects, images, practices, and places remind us of the deaths of others and of our own mortality. At the time of death, embodied persons disappear from view, their relationships with others come under threat and their influence may cease. Emotionally, socially, politically, much is at stake at the time of death. In this context, memories and memory-making can be highly charged, and often provide the dead with a social presence amongst the living. Memories of the dead are a bulwark against the terror of forgetting, as well as an inescapable outcome of a life's ending. Objects in attics, gardens, museums, streets and cemeteries can tell us much about the processes of remembering. This unusual and absorbing book develops perspectives in anthropology and cultural history to reveal the importance of material objects in experiences of grief, mourning and memorializing. Far from being ‘invisible', the authors show how past generations, dead friends and lovers remain manifest - through well-worn garments, letters, photographs, flowers, residual drops of perfume, funerary sculpture. Tracing the rituals, gestures and materials that have been used to shape and preserve memories of personal loss, Hallam and Hockey show how material culture provides the deceased with a powerful presence within the here and now.
