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The Body as Material Culture(1st Edition)
A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology (Topics in Contemporary Archaeology)
by Joanna R. Sofaer, Joanna Sofaer Derevenski
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-52146-8, ISBN: 0-521-52146-7

"Bodies intrigue us. They promise windows into the past that other archaeological finds cannot by bringing us literally face to face with history. Yet 'the body' is also highly contested. Archaeological bodies are studied through two contrasting perspectives that sit on different sides of a disciplinary divide. On one hand lie science-based osteoarchaeological approaches. On the other lie understandings derived from recent developments i ..."






The Body as Material Culture(1st Edition)
A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology (Topics in Contemporary Archaeology)
by Joanna R. Sofaer, Joanna Sofaer-Derevenski
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2006 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-81822-3, ISBN: 0-521-81822-2






Topics in Contemporary Archaeology
The Body As Material Culture : A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology 4
ISBN-13: 978-1-316-04258-8, ISBN: 1-316-04258-8






The Body
Social Process and Cultural Theory
by Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth, Bryan S. Turner
352 Pages, Published 1991 by Sage
ISBN-13: 978-1-84860-915-0, ISBN: 1-84860-915-9

"... playfully eclectic and extremely influential reconciliation of Freud and Marx; and most of all in its spirit of irreverence that stood in ... Foucault's subsequent practical involvement with the prison information movement even seems to emulate Deleuze's ... Foucault in his commentary on Difference et répétition praises Deleuze — and the unnamed opponent could ... forces are themselves constituted through the “affirmative' and ..."






The Material Culture Reader
by Victor Buchli
256 Pages, Published 2020 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-00-018416-7, ISBN: 1-00-018416-1

"... Bender, Susanne Küchler, Daniel Miller, Christopher Pinney, Michael Rowlands, Nicholas J. Saunders and Christopher Tilley. ... Also thanks go to Philip Wagenfeld for directing me to the works of Richard Caldicott and of course to Richard ..."






The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture
by Jeb J. Card
510 Pages, Published 2013 by Siu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-3316-5, ISBN: 0-8093-3316-3

"... of 110 samples, primarily of Late and Terminal Classic ceramics, that were recov- ered from a series of excavations ... The sample of 110 ceramics was subjected to chemical characterization by means of instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) conducted by Leslie Cecil and Michael Glascock (2007 ) at the MURR lab of the University of Missouri. ... Based on a variety of factors, including distribution patterns, mineralogica ..."






The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture
(Oxford Handbooks)
by Ivan Gaskell, Sarah Anne Carter
Hardcover, 696 Pages, Published 2020 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-934176-4, ISBN: 0-19-934176-1

"Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen, made, and used. This book examines how material culture can enhance historians' understanding of the past, both worldwide and across time. The successful use of material culture in history depends on treating material things of many kinds not as illustrations, but as primary ev ..."






The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies(1st Edition)
(Oxford Handbooks)
by Dan Hicks, Mary C. Beaudry
Hardcover, 792 Pages, Published 2010 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921871-4, ISBN: 0-19-921871-4

"The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies introduces and reviews current thinking in the interdisciplinary field of material culture studies. Drawing together approaches from archaeology, anthropology, geography, and Science and Technology Studies, through twenty-eight specially commissioned essays by leading international researchers, the volume explores contemporary issues and debates in a series of themed sections - Disciplina ..."






Anatomy Museum(1st Edition)
Death and the Body Displayed
by Elizabeth Hallam
Hardcover, 408 Pages, Published 2016 by Reaktion Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-375-8, ISBN: 1-86189-375-2

"Anatomy museums contain some of the most compelling and challenging displays of the human body. This innovative book focusing on one such museum - in Scotland's northeast - opens up a wide-ranging history of deceased bodies on display, from medieval relics, to nineteenth-century mega-collections of human remains, to the controversial Body Worlds exhibition that is touring the globe. A surprisingly varied and ever-changing material and v ..."






Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things
Shifting Contexts of Material Culture Through Time and Space
by Hans Peter Hahn, Hadas Weis
176 Pages, Published 2013 by Oxbow Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78297-084-2, ISBN: 1-78297-084-3

"shifting contexts of material culture through time and space Hans Peter Hahn, Hadas Weis. Figure 5.4. A medieval moneyer minting coins. The trussle is in his left hand, resting on the pile which is set into a block on the floor. © Peter Oakley The principles behind the expansion of the hallmarking system, and the use of symbols to identify the maker and place and time the object passed through the system, were prefigured in minting ..."






The material body
Embodiment, history and archaeology in industrialising England, 1700-1850
by Elizabeth Craig-Atkins, Karen Harvey
189 Pages, Published 2024 by Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-5277-0, ISBN: 1-5261-5277-0






Body Matters
Exploring the Materiality of the Human Body
by Luci Attala, Louise Steel
253 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Wales Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-78683-416-4, ISBN: 1-78683-416-2






Creating Material Worlds
The Uses of Identity in Archaeology
by Louisa Campbell, Adrian Maldonado, Elizabeth Pierce, Anthony Russell
192 Pages, Published 2016 by Oxbow Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78570-183-2, ISBN: 1-78570-183-5






The Archaeology of Childhood
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on an Archaeological Enigma
by Güner Cosçkunsu
320 Pages, Published 2015 by Suny Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-5806-9, ISBN: 1-4384-5806-1






Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium
Introducing Current Perspectives
by Craig Cipolla
238 Pages, Published 2017 by Taylor & Francis
ISBN-13: 978-1-317-49745-5, ISBN: 1-317-49745-7






Past Bodies
Body-Centered Research in Archaeology
by Dusan Boric, John Robb
160 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxbow Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78297-545-8, ISBN: 1-78297-545-4






An Archaeology or Prehistoric Bodies and Embodied Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean(1st Edition)
by Maria Mina, Sevi Triantaphyllou, Yiannis Papadatos
Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxbow Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78570-291-4, ISBN: 1-78570-291-2






Material Identities
by Joanna Sofaer
Ebook, 184 Pages, Published 2008 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-69328-5, ISBN: 0-470-69328-2






Activity, Diet and Social Practice
Addressing Everyday Life in Human Skeletal Remains
by Sarah Schrader
213 Pages, Published 2018 by Springer
ISBN-13: 978-3-030-02544-1, ISBN: 3-030-02544-6






Archaeological Theory
An Introduction
by Matthew Johnson
400 Pages, Published 2019 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN-13: 978-1-118-49937-5, ISBN: 1-118-49937-9



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