The Body in History :Europe from the Palaeolithic to the Future EDITORS:John Robb, University of Cambridge | Oliver J. T. Harris, University of Leicester
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Dept. of History Reference | Dept. of History | Reference | 306.4 BOD.B (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | HIS13000 |
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305.42 GEN.G Gender Citizenships and Subjectivities | 305.4209 SHE.S Status of Women in Contemporary World | 305.420954 TOM.E Empowerment of Rural Women | 306.4 BOD.B The Body in History :Europe from the Palaeolithic to the Future | 320.09 VER.H History of political thought | 320.09430904 STI.T Twentieth-century German political thought / | 325.30722 SOU.S Sources and methods in histories of colonialism : approaching the imperial archive / |
This book is a long-term history of how the human body has been understood in Europe from the Palaeolithic to the present day, focusing on specific moments of change. Developing a multi-scalar approach to the past, and drawing on the work of an interdisciplinary team of experts, the authors examine how the body has been treated in life, art and death for the last 40,000 years. Key case-study chapters examine Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Classical, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern bodies. What emerges is not merely a history of different understandings of the body, but a history of the different human bodies that have existed. Furthermore, the book argues, these bodies are not merely the product of historical circumstance, but are themselves key elements in shaping the changes that have swept across Europe since the arrival of modern humans.
Has a broad geographical and temporal scale (covers all of Europe, 40,000 BC-present)
Cross-disciplinary, integrating anthropology, archaeology, classics and history
Well-illustrated, with over one hundred images
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