ISBN:
9780415253109
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (207 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Embodied Lives
DDC:
306.9/097281/09021
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Examining a wide range of archaeological data, and using it to explore issues such as the sexual body, mind/body dualism, body modification, and magical practices, Lynn Meskell and Rosemary Joyce offer a new approach to the Ancient Egyptian and Mayan understanding of embodiment. Drawing on insights from feminist theory, art history, phenomenology, anthropology and psychoanalysis, the book takes bodily materiality as a crucial starting point to the understanding and formation of self in any society, and sheds new light on Ancient Egyptian and Maya cultures. The book shows how a comparative proj
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Terminologies; 3 Materialities; 4 Anti-Cartesianism; 5 Hybrids; 6 Phallic culture; 7 Subject to object; 8 Shadows; 9 Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
