Culturing the Body

Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-03-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:624 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:326
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781805394600

Utforska kategorier

Arkeologi inom Historia och arkeologi
Kroppskonst och tatuering inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Benjamin Collins is affiliated with the Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, and the Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town. His research explores social networks and connections among past forager societies.

Recensioner i media

“As direct evidence for body decoration and modification is scarce, due to the perishable nature of most of the measures, the authors in this book give examples of evidence how archaeologists can find and reconstruct body decoration, as well as what these practices mean for humans in relation to their individual and social identity.” • Ewa Dutkiewicz, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Archäologisches Zentrum

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsForeword: Culturing Emergent BodiesRosemary JoyceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Towards a Culturing of the Paleolithic BodyApril Nowell and Benjamin CollinsChapter 1. Enveloping Oneself in Others: Semiotic, Spatial, and Temporal Dimensions of Ostrich Eggshell Bead Use in Southern AfricaPeter J. Mitchell and Brian A. StewartChapter 2. Manufacturing Social Landscapes: Bead Production, Exchange, and Social Connections at Grassridge Rockshelter, South AfricaBenjamin Collins, Amy Hatton, April Nowell, and Christopher J. H. AmesChapter 3. Perspectives on Stone Age Sociality: A New Role for Ostrich Eggshell BeadsJennifer M. MillerChapter 4. A Shell Bead from a Faraway Ocean: Significance Assessment of a Single Indigenous Ornament from Southern AustraliaKeryn WalsheChapter 5. Building identities and social organization throughout the Early Holocene: Interpreting the personal adornments of the last hunter-gatherers in PortugalLino AndréChapter 6. Beads on the edge of the world: Atlantic identity and sociality during the Upper Paleolithic of western IberiaNuno Bicho and Lino AndréChapter 7. Constructing Identity: Body decoration and modification in the Swabian AurignacianEwa Dutkiewicz, Sibylle Wolf, Elizabeth C. Velliky, and Nicholas J. ConardChapter 8. What’s in a color? Ochre use in the Middle Stone Age of Southern AfricaTammy HodgskissChapter 9. The Best Dressed Hominin: Clothing, tanning and textile production in the PaleolithicApril Nowell and Aurora SkalaConclusion: Culturing Bodies in the Past: Similarities Across DiversityBenjamin Collins and April NowellIndex