پرورش بدن: دیدگاه‌های گذشته درباره هویت و اجتماعی بودن

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. Culturing the Body Contents Illustrations Foreword. Culturing Emergent Bodies Acknowledgments Introduction.Toward a Culturing of the Paleolithic Body Chapter 1. Enveloping Oneself in Others Chapter 2. Manufacturing Social Landscapes Chapter 3. Perspectives on Stone Age Sociality: A New Role for Ostrich Eggshell Beads Chapter 4. A Shell Bead from a Faraway Ocean Chapter 5. Building Identities and Social Organization throughout the Early Holocene Chapter 6. Beads on the Edge of the World Chapter 7. Constructing Identity Chapter 8. What’s in a Color? Chapter 9. The Best Dressed Hominin Conclusion. Culturing Bodies in the Past Index