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"Through a close examination of disciplinary practice, Joanna Sofaer highlights the tensions and possibilities offered by one particular kind of archaeological body, the human skeleton, with particular regard to the study of gender and age. Using a range of examples, she argues for reassessment of the role of the skeletal body in archaeological practice, and develops a theoretical framework for bioarchaeology based on the materiality and historicity of human remains."--Jacket.  Read more...
Request Code : ZLIBIO2432971
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Year:
2006
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
188
ISBN 10:
0511816669
ISBN 13:
9780511816666
ISBN:
9780511816666,0511816669
Series:
Topics in contemporary archaeology.

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