The Bodies Poetic: Identity and Interaction with the Dead
暫譯: 詩意的身體：與死者的身份與互動

Osterholtz, Anna

The Bodies Poetic: Identity and Interaction with the Dead
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2025-04-03
  • 售價: $6,440
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 353
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031859979
  • ISBN-13: 9783031859977

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商品描述

This book examines the intricate relationships between the living and the dead, revealing how these interactions shape group identities and facilitate ongoing negotiations of self and community. Beginning with a rich exploration of bioarchaeological theories, this volume introduces an enriched Poetics model, which deepens our understanding of not just skeletal remains, but the broader contexts that imbue bodies with social significance and how those bodies in turn can produce socially significant changes.

By emphasizing the roles of performance and ritual, the work illustrates how the dead serve as powerful tools in the creation and maintenance of social structures. Through compelling case studies of ancient and modern mortuary practices, it highlights the changing meanings of the body across different historical and cultural landscapes. The volume demonstrates that while our interpretations may shift, the body remains a profound source of meaning and identity. By analyzing patterns of modification and representation, this book provides invaluable insights into social change and how group identity is forged.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書探討生者與死者之間錯綜複雜的關係，揭示這些互動如何塑造群體身份並促進自我與社群的持續協商。首先，透過對生物考古學理論的深入探索，本書引入了一個豐富的詩學模型，這不僅加深了我們對骨骼遺骸的理解，也讓我們理解賦予身體社會意義的更廣泛背景，以及這些身體如何反過來產生社會上重要的變化。

本書強調表演和儀式的角色，說明死者如何成為創造和維持社會結構的強大工具。透過對古代和現代喪葬實踐的引人入勝的案例研究，突顯了在不同歷史和文化背景下，身體意義的變化。本書展示了儘管我們的詮釋可能會改變，但身體仍然是意義和身份的深刻來源。通過分析修改和表現的模式，本書提供了對社會變遷的寶貴見解，以及群體身份是如何形成的。

作者簡介

Anna Osterholtz is an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University and a Senior Research Associate at the Cobb Institute of Archaeology. Her research expertise is in bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology, with a particular focus on the application of the Poetics model to mortuary contexts. In addition to her work on the Poetics model, Dr. Osterholtz has helped to develop best practices for the analysis and interpretation of commingled human remains, particularly from ossuary and massacre assemblages. In recent years, her research has also expanded to investigate the role of lead consumption, health, and age at death during the Roman period in Croatia, a project for which she received a Wenner-Gren grant in collaboration with Mario Novak at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Zagreb. Dr. Osterholtz has conducted fieldwork and lab-based research across the Americas (US Southwest), Europe (Croatia, Cyprus, and Romania), and the Middle East (UAE), exploring the intricate relationships between the living and the dead. She has edited or co-edited five volumes and authored or co-authored over twenty peer-reviewed articles. Currently, she serves on the editorial board of the Bioarchaeology and Social Theory series published by Springer and is an associate editor for the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

安娜·奧斯特霍茲（Anna Osterholtz）是密西西比州立大學人類學系及中東文化系的副教授，同時也是科布考古學研究所的高級研究助理。她的研究專長為生物考古學和喪葬考古學，特別專注於詩學模型在喪葬背景中的應用。除了在詩學模型方面的工作外，奧斯特霍茲博士還協助制定了分析和解釋混合人類遺骸的最佳實踐，特別是來自骨灰盒和大屠殺遺址的遺骸。近年來，她的研究也擴展到調查克羅埃西亞羅馬時期的鉛消耗、健康狀況和死亡年齡的角色，這是一個她與扎格雷布人類學研究所的馬里奧·諾瓦克（Mario Novak）合作的項目，並因此獲得了溫納-格倫（Wenner-Gren）獎助金。奧斯特霍茲博士在美洲（美國西南部）、歐洲（克羅埃西亞、塞浦路斯和羅馬尼亞）以及中東（阿聯酋）進行了田野調查和實驗室研究，探索生者與死者之間的複雜關係。她編輯或共同編輯了五本書籍，並撰寫或共同撰寫了超過二十篇經過同行評審的文章。目前，她擔任施普林格（Springer）出版的《生物考古學與社會理論》系列的編輯委員會成員，並擔任《國際骨考古學期刊》（International Journal of Osteoarchaeology）的副編輯。

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