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Culturing the Body: Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality

Edited by Benjamin Collins, Collins, Edited by April Nowell

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The human body is both the site of lived experiences and a means of communicating those experiences to a diverse audience. Hominins have been culturing their bodies, that is adding social and cultural meaning through the use pigments and objects, for over 100,000 years. There is archaeological evidence for practices of adornment of the body by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hominins, including personal ornaments, clothing, hairstyles, body painting, and tattoos. These practices have been variously interpreted to reflect differences such as gender, status, and ethnicity, to attract or intimidate others, and as indices of a symbolically mediated self and personal identity. These studies contribute to a novel and growing body of evidence for diversity of cultural expression in the past, something that is a hallmark of human cultures today.

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Publisher | Berghahn Books
Published date | 1 Mar 2024
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 326
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-8053-9460-0
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BISAC | social science / archaeology


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