Ebook: The Body as Material Culture: A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology
Author: Sofaer Joanna R.
- Genre: Other Social Sciences // Sociology
- Tags: Human remains (Archaeology), Restes humains (Archéologie), Paléoanthropologie, Paläopathologie, Körper, Archäologie, Sachkultur
- Series: Topics in contemporary archaeology.
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- City: Cambridge
- Language: English
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"Through a close examination of disciplinary practice, Joanna Sofaer highlights the tensions and possibilities offered by one particular kind of archaeological body, the human skeleton, with particular regard to the study of gender and age. Using a range of examples, she argues for reassessment of the role of the skeletal body in archaeological practice, and develops a theoretical framework for bioarchaeology based Read more...