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Culturing the Body: Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality

Culturing the Body: Past Perspectives on Identity and Sociality

Collins, Benjamin
Nowell, April

Hardcover

AnthropologyArchaeologyBody Art & Tattooing

ISBN10: 1805394606
ISBN13: 9781805394600
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Mar 1 2024
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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