Thinking Through the Body: Archaeologies of Corporeality

List of Figures and Tables. List of Contributors. Introduction: Thinking Through the Body Y. Hamilakis, et al. Part 1: Bodies, Selves and Individuals. Introduction S. Tarlow. 1. Archaeology's humanism and the materiality of the body J. Thomas. 2. Body Parts: personhood and materiality in the earlier Manx neolithic C. Fowler. 3. Moralities of dress and the dress of the dead in early medieval Europe J. Bazelmans. 4. The aesthetic corpse in nineteenth-century Britain S. Tarlow. Part 2: Experience and Corporeality. Introduction Y. Hamilakis. 5. Feeling through the body: gesture in Cretan Bronze Age Religion C. Morris, A. Peatfield. 6. The past as oral history: towards an archaeology of the senses Y. Hamilakis. 7. Ways of eating/ways of being in the later epipalaeolithic (Natufian) Levant B. Boyd. 8. Time and Biography: Osteobiography of the Italian neolithic lifespan J. Robb. Part 3: Bodies in/as Material Culture. Introduction M. Pluciennik. 9. (Un)masking Gender - gold foil (dis)embodiments in late Iron Age Scandinavia I.-M. Back Danielsson. 10. Re-arranging History: the contested bones of the Oseberg grave E. Arwill-Nordbladh. 11. Art, artefact, metaphor M. Pluciennik. 12. Marking the body, marking the land: body as history, land as history: tattooing and engraving in Oceania P. Rainbird. Notes on Contributors.