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Title Embodied knowledge : perspectives on belief and technology / edited by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Edition 1st ed
Published Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (154 pages :) : illustrations
Contents Embodied knowledge : reflections on belief and technology : introduction / Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and Katharina Rebay-Salisbury -- Part I -- Introduction to Part I: Belief as practice / Marie Louise Stig Sørensen -- Inhumation and cremation : how burial practices are linked to beliefs / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury -- Delusion and disclosure : human disposal and the aesthetics of vagueness / Tim Flohr Sørensen -- Material culture, embodiment and the construction of religious knowledge / Mads Dengsø Jessen -- Sealed by the cross : protecting the body in Anglo-Saxon England / Helen Foxhall Forbes -- The role of healing in the Jesuit mission to China, 1582-1610 / Mary Laven -- Protest re-embodied : shifting technologies of moral suasion in India / Jacob Copeman -- Part II -- Introduction to Part II: Technology as practice / Lise Bender Jørgensen -- The language of craftsmanship / Harald Bentz Høgseth -- Conceptual knowledge as technologically materialised : a case study of pottery production, consumption and community practice / Sheila Kohring -- Many hands make light work : potting and embodied knowledge at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary / Joanna Sofaer and Sandy Budden -- Spinning faith / Lise Bender Jørgensen -- The sound of fire, taste of copper, feel of bronze, and colours of the cast : sensory aspects of metalworking technology / Maikel Henricus Gerardus Kuijpers -- Authors' short biographies and contact details
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Social archaeology -- Case studies
Archaeology and history -- Case studies
Human body -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500
Senses and sensation -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500
Learning -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500
Belief and doubt -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500
Technology -- Social aspects -- History -- To 1500
Material culture -- History -- To 1500
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
HISTORY / General
Archaeology and history
Belief and doubt -- Social aspects
Human body -- Social aspects
Learning -- Social aspects
Material culture
Senses and sensation -- Social aspects
Social archaeology
Technology -- Social aspects
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig
Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina
LC no. 2012039224
ISBN 9781782971252
1782971254