Body Matters: Exploring the Materiality of the Human Body (Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology) - Softcover

Luci Attala

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786834154 ISBN 13: 9781786834157

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2019

Synopsis

Body Matters approaches the material world directly; it seeks to remind people that they are the matter of their bodies. This volume offers an assortment of contributions from anthropology, archaeology and medieval studies, with case studies from northern Europe, the Near East, East Africa and Amazonia, which variously draw attention to the multiple shifting materials that comprise, impact upon and co-create human bodies. This lively collection foregrounds myriad material influences interacting with and shaping the human body; the chapters come together to illustrate the fundamental fleshy, bony, suppurating, leaky and oozing physicality of being human. Ultimately, by reminding readers of their indisputable materiality, Body Matters seeks to draw people and the rest of the material world together to illustrate that bodies not only seep into (and are part of) the landscape, but equally that people and the material world are inextricably co-constitutive.

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About the Author

Luci Attala is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at UWTSD, Senior Fellow HEA, Green Gown Award winner (2015) for her work on sustainability, and was recipient of the UN Gold Star Award (2014) for work in Kenya. Louise Steel is Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at UWTSD, Senior Fellow HEA, and has directed archaeological fieldwork in Cyprus and Gaza.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786834154
• ISBN 13: 9781786834157
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Luci Attala, Louise Steel