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Thinking Through the Body

Hamilakis, Yannis

`The Body' was a trendy topic of consideration in sociology and related fields during the 1990s, tied up with modern preoccupations with gender, the individual, and agency. The papers in this volume attempt to engage the body as a topic of archaeological enquiry, and as a subject influenced by cultural categories of perception, experience and practice. The papers are divided into three sections which explore the relationship between the physical body and other cultural ideas such as the `self' and `individual', those that take issue with the interpretive limitations of traditional methods of data analysis, those that consider the ways in which archaeologists can integrate material culture with social and symbolic constructions of human bodies, especially in art and burial rituals. This book is based on a workshop held at the University of Wales, Lampeter, in 1998. Overall the mixture of papers is somewhat bewildering, looking at case studies from Oceania, Britain, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean, from prehistory, the medieval, and post-medieval periods. 262p, 30 b/w figs, 2 tbs (Kluwer Academic/Plenum 2002)

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