Past Bodies

Author : Dusan Boric,John Robb
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782975458

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Past Bodies by Dusan Boric,John Robb Pdf

Archaeology often struggles in envisioning real people behind the world of material objects it studies. Even when dealing with skeletal remains archaeologists routinely reduce them to long lists of figures and attributes. Such a fragmentation of past subjects and their bodies, if analytically necessary, is hardly satisfactory. While material culture is the main archaeological proxy to real people in the past, the absence of past bodies has been chronic in archaeological writings. At the same time, these past bodies in archaeology are omnipresent. Bodily matters are tangible in the archaeological record in a way most other theoretical centralities never appear to be. Ancient bodies surround us, in representations, in burials, in the remains of food preparation, cooking and consumption, in hands holding tools, in joint efforts of many individual bodies who built architecture and monuments. This collection of papers is a reaction to decades of the body's invisibility. It raises the body as the central topic in the study of past societies, researching its appearance in a wide variety of regional contexts and across vast spans of archaeological time. Contributions in this volume range from the deep Epi-Palaeolithic past of the Near East, through the European Neolithic and Bronze Age, Classical Greece and Late Medieval England, to pre-Columbian Central America, post-contact North America, and the most recent conflicts in the Balkans. In all these case studies, the materiality of the body is centre stage. Possibilities are highlighted for future study: by putting the body at the forefront of these archaeological studies an attempt is made to provoke the imagination and map out new territories.

Author : Benjamin R. Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Numerical analysis
ISBN : UIUC:30112106741447

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Calculation of Supersonic Flow Past Bodies Supporting Shock Waves Shaped Like Elliptic Cones by Benjamin R. Briggs Pdf

Author : Philip E. Everhart,Walter F. Lindsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Aerodynamics, Transonic
ISBN : UIUC:30112106713479

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Observations on the Flows Past Blunt Bodies at Transonic Speeds by Philip E. Everhart,Walter F. Lindsey Pdf

Author : Milton Van Dyke,Helen D. Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Aerodynamics, Supersonic
ISBN : NASA:31769000420003

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Supersonic Flow Past a Family of Blunt Axisymmetric Bodies by Milton Van Dyke,Helen D. Gordon Pdf

Some 100 numerical computations have been carried out for unyawed bodies of revolution with detached bow waves. The gas is assumed perfect with y=5/3, 7/5, or 1. Free-stream Mach numbers are taken as 1.2, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, and [infinity symbol]. The results are summarized with emphasis on the sphere and paraboloid.

Author : Bambi Harris
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462009329

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Past Lives and Borrowed Bodies by Bambi Harris Pdf

With her murder well behind her, Penny has a new adventure to contend with: uncontrollable time travel. And shes made a powerful enemy right off the bat. Claudius, the evil, ancient Roman merchant, needs to get Penny and her abilities as a seer out of the picture, so he sends her jumping in and out of other peoples bodies in a wild race through time. Pennys trip takes her to plague-infested Europe, the hippie era, the Vietnam War, and beyond. Despite the constant change of address (and body and time), Penny still manages to communicate with her allies: the moody and handsome Avery, cowboy Roy, and her vintage-loving angel, Eric. They frantically try to get her back to her new home in Gods garden, but Claudius is a twisted puppet master. He has hidden her in time and has quite a selection of exhaustiveand exhaustingmisadventures planned for her. But not all is despair and confusion. Penny uses her many skills to comfort people along her journey, and she is reunited with family she didnt know she hadeventually experiencing some of her own past lives. Pennys inspiring journey of self-improvement and hard-earned life lessons is another fun ride on the astral plane in this third installment in the popular Afterlife series.

Author : Jerry Curtis South
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Mathematical models
ISBN : UIUC:30112101601158

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Calculation of Axisymmetric Supersonic Flow Past Blunt Bodies with Sonic Corners by Jerry Curtis South Pdf

Author : Konstantin Ivanovich Babenko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Aerodynamics
ISBN : UVA:X001009897

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Three-dimensional Flow of Ideal Gas Past Smooth Bodies by Konstantin Ivanovich Babenko Pdf

Author : Melanie Giles
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526150172

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Bog bodies by Melanie Giles Pdf

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The ‘bog bodies’ of north-western Europe have captured the imaginations of poets and archaeologists alike, allowing us to come face-to-face with individuals from the past. Their exceptional preservation permits us to examine minute details of their lives and deaths, making us reflect poignantly on our own mortality. But, as this book argues, the bodies must be resituated within a turbulent world of endemic violence and change. Reinterpreting the latest continental research and new discoveries, and featuring a ground-breaking ‘cold case’ forensic study of Worsley Man, Manchester Museum’s ‘bog head’, it brings the bogs to life through both natural history and folklore, revealing them as places that were rich and fertile yet dangerous. The book also argues that these remains do not just pose practical conservation problems but also philosophical dilemmas, compounded by the critical debate on if – and how – they should be displayed.

Author : Jane Draycott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351573368

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Bodies of Evidence by Jane Draycott Pdf

Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-called ?anatomical votives?. These archaeological artefacts capture the modern imagination, recalling vividly the physical and fragile bodies of the past whilst posing interpretative challenges in the present. This volume scrutinises this distinctive dedicatory phenomenon, bringing together for the first time a range of methodologically diverse approaches which challenge traditional assumptions and simple categorisations. The chapters presented here ask new questions about what constitutes an anatomical votive, how they were used and manipulated in cultural, cultic and curative contexts and the complex role of anatomical votives in negotiations between humans and gods, the body and its disparate parts, divine and medical healing, ancient assemblages and modern collections and collectors. In seeking to re-contextualise and re-conceptualise anatomical votives this volume uniquely juxtaposes the medical with the religious, the social with the conceptual, the idea of the body in fragments with the body whole and the museum with the sanctuary, crossing the boundaries between studies of ancient religion, medicine, the body and the reception of antiquity.

Author : Judi Lynn
Publisher : Lyrical Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781516110216

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The Body from the Past by Judi Lynn Pdf

A closed room in her newest fixer-upper leads Indiana house-flipper Jazzi Zanders to reopen a chilling cold case involving a high school girl . . . Jazzi, her cousin Jerod, and her husband Ansel are preparing to renovate a charming house that reminds her of an English manor. Before purchasing it, they had inspected the house for structural issues, but now when they do a more thorough walk-through, they discover a teenage girl's bedroom that clearly hasn't been touched in years. Dust covers the pink canopy bed, clothes still hang in the closet, and a hope chest remains full of journals and memorabilia. They've stumbled on a shrine to a dead girl. They learn Jessica was killed in the middle of her high school graduation party. The murderer was never identified, but the brother-in-law of Jazzi’s friend, who went to school with Jessica, was suspected and never lived it down. He implores Jazzi to review the cold case and finally prove him innocent. Now it’s up to the house-flipper to nail a killer who will do anything to close the door on the past . . .

Author : K-Ming Chang
Publisher : Black Lawrence Press, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1625578717

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Past Lives, Future Bodies by K-Ming Chang Pdf

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. In her debut short collection, poet Kristin Chang bursts onto the page and into our consciousness like a dazzling, dizzying uproar: "I suck / until my teeth riot / with rot & I have nothing / left in my mouth to keep / quiet." Quiet Chang's speakers are not. In these nineteen poems, the body is personal and communal, hunter and hunted: "My mother says / women who sleep with women / are redundant: the body symmetrical / to its crime. Between your knees / I mistake need for belief / in a father figure: once, we renamed / our fathers by burning them / out of our bodies, smoking the sky / into meat." PAST LIVES, FUTURE BODIES is a knife-sharp and nimble examination of migration, motherhood, and the malignant legacies of racism. In this collection, family forms both a unit of survival and a framework for history, agency, and recovery. Chang undertakes a visceral exploration of the historical and unfolding paths of lineage and what it means to haunt body and country. These poems traverse not only the circularity of trauma but the promise of regeneration--what grows from violence and hatches from healing--as Chang embodies each of her ghosts and invites the specter to speak. "Kristin Chang wields the line break like a sword cutting through dimensions of reality and language. Each break offers another surprise gut-punch or gutting grace on the other side as these fiercely sharp poems turn and turn, Chang never faltering to rise to the occasion of these blood-filled verses. Chang, quite simply, can write her ass off. I read these poems and I feel like I'm discovering poetry all over again. Chang makes a spell rise from every wound, and I'm caught all the way up in this magic. Kristin Chang is one of the best emerging writers out there, and this chapbook is one step into a career we will all be transformed by. PAST LIVES, FUTURE BODIES couldn't be a better way to be introduced to your new favorite poet. It's Kristin's world, thank God we're reading in it."--Danez Smith "Kristin Chang's PAST LIVES, FUTURE BODIES is full of mouths swallowing food, language, home, memory, and bodily desires to finally arrive at explosive demonstrations of what happens when the unspeakable is uttered and shouted. Each poem shows the process of turning a painful reflection on history, sexuality, race, family, and nation into a prismatic object of beauty. We are lucky to witness Chang's use of silence as a productive narrative frame."--Emily Jungmin Yoon "In PAST LIVES, FUTURE BODIES, Kristin Chang's knotty examination into the complexities of intergenerational relationships, we come to understand the fraught nature of both the known and the unknown. These meditations on family, pain, and the ways we communicate untangle the threads of what it means to love those who have hurt us. Chang writes, 'Every language has different / words for the same want,' and the poems in this collection stunningly reveal those words and leave us wanting for more."--Eloisa Amezcua

Author : Uroš Mati?
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789257731

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Beautiful Bodies by Uroš Mati? Pdf

This book explores the role of material culture in the formation of corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals in different past societies and thus contributes to the cultural relativization of bodily aesthetics and related gender norms. The volume does not explore beauty for the sake of beauty, but extensively explores how it serves to form and keep gender norms in place. The concept of beauty has been a topic of interest for some time, yet it is only in recent times that archaeologists have begun to approach beauty as a culturally contingent and socially constructed phenomenon. Although archaeologists and ancient historians extensively dealt with gender, they dealt less with it in relation to beauty. The contributions in this volume deal with different intersections of gender and corporeal aesthetics by turning to rich archaeological, textual and iconographic data from ancient Sumer, Aegean Bronze Age, ancient Egypt, ancient Athens, Roman provinces, the Viking world and the Qajar Iran. Beauty thus moves away from a curiosity and surface of the body to an analytic concept for a better understanding of past and present societies.

Author : Theodore A. Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:AA0003927084

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Odd Fellowship by Theodore A. Ross Pdf

Author : James M. Deem
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 061880045X

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Bodies from the Ice by James M. Deem Pdf

The author of "Bodies from the Ash" and "Bodies from the Bog" takes readers on a captivating and creepy journey to learn about glaciers, hulking masses of moving ice that are now offering up many secrets of the past. Full color.

Author : Benedict Giamo
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781465332004

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Notes from the Bowery by Benedict Giamo Pdf

In the U.S., the homeless have traveled from the freight train to the shelter. Skid row was an extended stop along the way. Giamo reveals his encounter with the city and old Bowery of the 1970s. He simply followed the drift of homelessness. When it led him to the Bowery, the historic skid row, he dropped down to what had been, and still was at that time, the netherworld of New York City. Striving to attain authenticity, the author and his collaborator immersed themselves in the usual activities of the area and befriended the residents. As a result, they were enlightened about the lifestyle and meaning of skid row homelessness. Notes from the Bowery combines the personal essay, literary nonfiction, and cultural history to represent the significance of American life in the city and on the skids. Engaging, insightful, and deeply felt, Notes from the Bowery will give readers an enriching experience as they accompany the author on a journey of descent and discovery. For more information on this book, log on to www.Xlibris.com.