Culturing the body : past perspectives on identity and sociality
Culturing the body
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
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| Omfang | xx, 303 sider : illustrasjoner, kart
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| Opplysninger | Introduction : toward a culturing of the Paleolithic body / April Nowell and Benjamin Collins -- Enveloping oneself in others : semiotic, spatial, and temporal dimensions of ostrich eggshell bead use in Southern Africa / Peter J. Mitchell and Brian A. Stewart -- Manufacturing social landscapes : bead production, exchange, and social connections at Grassridge Rockshelter, South Africa / Benjamin Collins, Amy Hatton, April Nowell, and Christopher J.H. Ames -- Perspectives on Stone Age sociality : a new role for ostrich eggshell beads / Jennifer M. Miller -- A shell bead from a faraway ocean : significance assessment of a single indigenous ornament from Southern Australia / Keryn Walshe -- Building identities and social organization throughout the early Holocene : interpreting the personal adornments of the last hunter-gatherers in Portugal / Lino André -- Beads on the edge of the world : Atlantic identity and sociality during the Upper Paleolithic of Western Iberia / Nuno Bicho and Lino André -- Constructing identity : body decoration and modification in the Swabian Aurignacian / Ewa Dutkiewicz, Sibylle Wolf, Elizabeth C. Velliky, and Nicholas J. Conard --- What's in a color? : ochre use in the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa / Tammy Hodgskiss -- The best dressed hominin : clothing, tanning, and textile production in the Paleolithic / April Nowell and Aurora Skala -- Conclusion : culturing bodies in the past : similarities across diversity / Benjamin Collins and April Nowell. - "The human body is both the site of lived experiences and a means of communicating those experiences to a diverse audience. Hominins have been culturing their bodies, that is adding social and cultural meaning through the use pigments and objects, for over 100,000 years. There is archaeological evidence for practices of adornment of the body by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hominins, including personal ornaments, clothing, hairstyles, body painting, and tattoos. These practices have been variously interpreted to reflect differences such as gender, status, and ethnicity, to attract or intimidate others, and as indices of a symbolically mediated self and personal identity. These studies contribute to a novel and growing body of evidence for diversity of cultural expression in the past, something that is a hallmark of human cultures today"
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| ISBN | 9781805394600
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