Body Matters

Louise Steel and Luci Attala

Description

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.

List of figures
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction - Luci Attala and Louise Steel
Chapter 2: Bodies that co-create: The residues and intimacies of vital materials - Eloise Govier
Chapter 3: I am apple - Luci Attala
Chapter 4: Cooled, cured and sedimented: Reforming and edifying the hydrocentric infants of northwestern Amazonia - Elizabeth Rahmen
Chapter 5: Embodied encounters with the ancestors- Louise Steel
Chapter 6: ‘They roll around in the mud!’: Becoming a community of substance - Kate Nialla Fayers-Kerr.
Chapter 7: The resuscitation of the twice-hanged man: Miracles and the body in medieval Swansea - Harriett Webster
Chapter 8: Dead and dusted: Exploring the mutable boundaries of the body - Ros Coard
Chapter 9: A cup for any occasion: The materiality of drinking experiences at Kerma - Carl Walsh
Chapter 10: All fingers, no thumbs: the materiality of a medieval relic - Janet Burton.
Glossary
Index

Sujets

• Human Anatomy
• Life Sciences
• Sciences et techniques
• Materiality
• Matters
• Physiology
• Human
• Body
• Science

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781786834164
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 20 Mo

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M A T E R I A L I T I E S I N A N T H R O P O L O G Y A N D A R C H A E O L O G Y

BODY MATTERS

M A T E R I A L I T I E S I N A N T H R O P O L O G Y A N D A R C H A E O L O G Y

SERIES EDITORS

ucî Attaa and ouîse Stee Unîversîty o Waes Trînîty Saînt Davîd

SERIES EDITORIAL BOARD Dr Nîcoe Boîvîn Dîrector o the Max Panck ïnstîtute or the Scîence o Human Hîstory

Proessor Samantha Hurn Unîversîty o Exeter

Dr Oîver Harrîs Unîversîty o Leîcester

Proessor Davîd Howes Concordîa Centre or ïnterdîscîpînary Studîes în Socîety and Cuture

Dr Eîzabeth Rahman Unîversîty o Oxord

M A T E R I A L I T I E S I N A N T H R O P O L O G Y A N D A R C H A E O L O G Y

BODY MATTERS

EXPLORING THE MATERIALITY OF THE HUMAN BODY

Edited by LUCI ATTALA and LOUISE STEEL

UNïVERSïTY OF WAES PRESS 2019

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CONTENTS

Lîst o Igures Acknowedgements Lîst o contrîbutors Preace

1 ïntroductîon Lucî Attaa and Louîse Stee

2 Bodîes that co-create: The resîdues and întîmacîes o vîta materîas Eoîse Govîer

3

‘ï am appe’: Reatîonshîps o the Lesh. Exporîng the corporea entangements o eatîng pants în the Amazon Lucî Attaa

4 Cooed, cured and sedîmented: Reormîng and edîyîng the hydrocentrîc înants o northwestern Amazonîa Eîzabeth Rahmen

5 Embodîed encounters wîth the ancestors Louîse Stee

6 Becomîng a communîty o substance: The Mun, the mud and the therapeutîc art o body paîntîng Kate Nîaa Fayers-Kerr

7 The resuscîtatîon o the twîce-hanged man: Mîraces and the body în medîeva Swansea Harrîett Webster

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vîîî  B ODY MAT T E R S

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Deadanddusted:Exporîngthemutabeboundarîes o the body Ros Coard

Acuporanyoccasîon?Thematerîaîtyodrînkîng experîences at Kerma Car Wash

10 A Ingers, no thumbs: The materîaîty o a medîeva reîc Janet Burton

Gossary ïndex

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LIST OF FIGURES

Fîg. 2.1 ‘Dîrt Drawîngs’ by artîst Suze Adams produced 30 durîng her perormed artîst resîdency ‘At One Remove’ or theCartesîan Cut? Exhîbîtîon 2016. Photo: Eoîse Govîer. Fîg. 4.1 Spash-washîng în the rîver, besîde the petrîIed 72 ancestor rock. Photo: Eîzabeth Rahmen. Fîg. 4.2 The îmage depîcts one o two ocaes named as 75 ‘the înant’s watera’. Accordîng to the narratîon, cuture-hero Napîruî, arrîved at thîs spot to Ind a woman bathîng her baby, and he named ît as such. Photo: Eîzabeth Rahmen. Fîg. 5.1 Pastered sku rom Jerîcho © UC ïnstîtute o 95 Archaeoogy. Fîg. 5.2 Makîng a pastered sku. Photo: ouîse Stee. 97 Fîg. 5.3 Dîsartîcuated bones rom Aredîou Tomb 1. 98 Photo: Steve Thomas. Fîg. 6.1 Ater a parent has payuy smeared a todder wîth 115 dung, Buu, October 2010. Photo: Kate Fayers-Kerr. Fîg. 6.2 An oder boy beîng paînted wîth yeow cay whîe 117 out wîth the catte, Choo, September 2010. Photo: Kate Fayers-Kerr. Fîg. 6.3 Chîdren and other partîcîpants ‘washed’ wîth 122 whîte cay on the Ina day o the bîo ama, Uumhoî, Juy 2010. Photo: Kate Fayers-Kerr. Fîg. 9.1 BTRPW drînkîng vesses: (a) Beaker EA554423; 177 (b) Beaker EA55415; (c) rîed beaker EA65579. Photo: Car Wash, taken courtesy o the Trustees o the Brîtîsh Museum. Fîg. 9.2 BTRPW spouted vesse oten reerred as a ‘teapot’ 180 EA65577. Photo: Car Wash, taken courtesy o the Trustees o the Brîtîsh Museum.