The human body in early Iron Age Central Europe : burial practices and images of the Hallstatt world / Katharina Rebay-Salisbury.

Author
Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
  • ©2016
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 317 pages) : illustrations

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"Identities and social relations are fundamental elements of societies. To approach these topics from a new and different angle, this study takes the human body as the focal point of investigation. It tracks changing identities of early Iron Age people in central Europe through body-related practices: the treatment of the body after death and human representations in art"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Theoretical Framework
  • The Iron Age Setting
  • Funerary Practices and the Body
  • The Representation of the Body : Images and Imagined Worlds
  • The Image and the Object
  • The Hallstatt Body in Life and Death
  • Motif networks
  • Conclusion
  • List of sites included in the analysis.
ISBN
  • 9781351998734 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1351998730 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781315277233 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1315277239 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781351998727 ((ePub ebook))
  • 1351998722 ((ePub ebook))
  • 9781351998710 ((Mobipocket ebook))
  • 1351998714 ((Mobipocket ebook))
OCLC
  • 967742458
  • 965826715
Doi
  • 10.4324/9781315277233
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