Body Matters : : Exploring the Materiality of the Human Body / / edited by Luci Attala and Louise Steel.

• Superior document: Materialities in Anthropology and Archaeology
• TeilnehmendeR: Attala, Luci,; Steel, Louise,
• Place / Publishing House: Cardiff : : University of Wales Press,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Materialities in anthropology and archaeology.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Includes index.

Adopting a novel cross-disciplinary approach, this book demonstrates the value of understanding human bodies as fundamentally influenced and affected by the other materials available in diverse landscapes. Using a rich mix of ethnographic, archaeological and historical examples, it explores the creative roles materials have taken in shaping past and present people's bodies.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bodies that co-create: The residues and intimacies of vital materials -- 3. 'I am apple': Relationships of the flesh. Exploring the corporeal entanglements of eating plants in the Amazon -- 4. Cooled, cured and sedimented: Reforming and edifying the hydrocentric infants of northwestern Amazonia -- 5. Embodied encounters with the ancestors -- 6. Becoming a community of substance: The Mun, the mud and the therapeutic art of body painting -- 7. The resuscitation of the twice-hanged man: Miracles and the body in medieval Swansea -- 8. Dead and dusted: Exploring the mutable boundaries of the body -- 9. A cup for any occasion? The materiality of drinking experiences at Kerma -- 10. All fingers, no thumbs: The materiality of a medieval relic -- Glossary -- Index -- Back Cover.