Bodies in the bog and the archaeological imagination / Karin Sanders

Author:: Sanders, Karin, 1952-
Published:: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Physical Description:: xx, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Remarkable remains -- Nature's own darkroom -- The archaeological uncanny -- Uses and abuses : bog body politics -- Erotic digging -- Bog body art -- Museum thresholds and the ethics of display -- Making faces -- Frozen time and material metaphors.

Subject(s):

Bog bodies—Europe
Human remains (Archaeology)—Europe
Water-saturated sites (Archaeology)—Europe
Antiquities, Prehistoric—Europe
Europe—Antiquities

ISBN:

9780226734040 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226734048 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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