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Author Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina

Title The Human Body in Early Iron Age Central Europe : Burial Practices and Images of the Hallstatt World
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (387 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of plates; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical framework; 2.1 Approaching the Iron Age body; 2.2 Networks; 2.3 Identity and/as communication; 3 The Iron Age setting; 3.1 Unity and diversity: the regions; 3.2 Chronology and temporality; 3.3 Lifeways; 3.4 The physical anthropology of early Iron Age people; 4 Funerary practices and the body; 4.1 The treatment of the body; 4.2 Cremation and inhumation; 4.3 The body and objects; 4.4 Bodies and/as vessels; 4.5 The internal geography of graves and the body
4.6 From grave architecture to burial communities5 The representation of the body: images and imagined worlds; 5.1 The multi-layered nature of art objects; 5.2 Art as sign language and in communication; 5.3 Art as agency; 6 The image and the object; 6.1 The image database; 6.2 Objects; 6.3 Materials and technologies; 6.4 The chaîne opératoire: contexts of production, use and deposition; 6.5 Translating images: cross-craft interaction; 7 The Hallstatt body in life and death; 7.1 Reading faces; 7.2 Gestalt: perspective, body form, proportions and bodily ideals; 7.3 Body parts and hybridity
7.4 Nudity, sex and gender7.5 Sexuality; 7.6 Age, ageing and stages of life; 7.7 Femininity: of marriage and motherhood; 7.8 Masculinity: war and everyday life; 7.9 Postures, gestures and movement; 7.10 Actions, activities and practices; 8 Motif networks; 9 Conclusion; 10 List of sites included in the analysis; Bibliography; Index
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ISBN 9781351998727
1351998722