Culturing the Body
eBook - PDF

Culturing the Body

Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Culturing the Body

Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781805394600
eBook ISBN
9781805394624
Edition
1
Topic
Sciences sociales
Subtopic
Art général

Table of contents

  1. Culturing the Body
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Foreword. Culturing Emergent Bodies
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction.Toward a Culturing of the Paleolithic Body
  7. Chapter 1. Enveloping Oneself in Others
  8. Chapter 2. Manufacturing Social Landscapes
  9. Chapter 3. Perspectives on Stone Age Sociality: A New Role for Ostrich Eggshell Beads
  10. Chapter 4. A Shell Bead from a Faraway Ocean
  11. Chapter 5. Building Identities and Social Organization throughout the Early Holocene
  12. Chapter 6. Beads on the Edge of the World
  13. Chapter 7. Constructing Identity
  14. Chapter 8. What’s in a Color?
  15. Chapter 9. The Best Dressed Hominin
  16. Conclusion. Culturing Bodies in the Past
  17. Index