Body Matters: Exploring the Materiality of the Human Body
- Submitting institution
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- Luci Atalla2
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 978-1786834157
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The initial premise for the volume (the focus on the body) was developed by Attala. The editorial work was equally divided between the two editors: namely the recruitment of authors, initial comment on chapters and editorial decisions about content. Steel was the primary interface with UWP and took charge of the indexing. Proofing was shared equally. The introductory chapter was co-written: Attala prepared the first draft and Steel added to this and wrote the review of chapters section. The volume offers an assortment of contributions from anthropology, archaeology and medieval studies, with case studies from northern Europe, the Near East, East Africa and Amazonia, which variously draw attention to the multiple shifting materials that comprise, impact upon and co-create human bodies. This lively collection foregrounds myriad material influences interacting with and shaping the human body; the chapters come together to illustrate the fundamental fleshy, bony, suppurating, leaky and oozing physicality of being human. As outlined in the introduction, Body Matters is part of a Materialities in archaeology and anthropology series that employs a cross-disciplinary, relational perspective of the substances that the world is comprised of that is designed to remind the reader of how all life is materially tangled and reciprocally co-generative. As such it is situated within a wider theoretical library of literature that troubles the categories established by many Euro-American epistemologies. Consequently, by articulating this perspective, it aims to demonstrate the inadequacies inherent in siloed knowledge and provide an alternative to approach the Age we find ourselves living in. Underpinning the chapters is the overlooked truism that human exist with the material world, rather than the inaccurate yet persistent perspective that people simply use the world. The provides a potent reimagining of how knowledge might be reproduced.
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- Non-English
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