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What can bodies do? Bodies and caves in the Karst Neolithic
- Source :
- Documenta Praehistorica, Vol 38 (2011)
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani), 2011.
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Abstract
- This paper discuses ways in which bodies – human and animal – were produced in the Neolithic of the Karst. Bodies are seen as cumulative processes shaped by forces of encounters with the material world, rather than as biological givens. Thus, the paper focuses on the process of embodiment mediated with other bodies and landscape, especially important places such as caves. It explores the unique ways in which caves affect bodies, and how these affected bodies created new societies. In the Neolithic Karst, everyday contacts and interactions between humans, animals, the landscape and caves and rock shelters profoundly changed all the participants. A new hybrid society emerged, consisting of human and non-human bodies.
- Subjects :
- body
affect
human animal relations
caves
Neolithic
Karst
Archaeology
CC1-960
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1408967X and 18542492
- Volume :
- 38
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Documenta Praehistorica
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.5e0c876098d4bf4a075e354f01db8ed
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.38.8