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Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination
Karin Sanders
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Description for Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination
paperback. This beautifully written book explores the Iron Age bog bodies of northern Europe as cultural artefacts, objects of fascination to archaeologists and antiquaries, but also to artists, poets, philosophers and psychologists. Num Pages: 317 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: HDDA; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 168 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
This beautifully written book explores the Iron Age bog bodies of northern Europe as cultural artefacts, objects of fascination to archaeologists and antiquaries, but also to artists, poets, philosophers and psychologists. Sanders describes the wide range of responses which the bodies have produced from such diverse figures as Sigmund Freud, Seumus Heaney, William Carols Willams and Margaret Attwood. She is particularly strong on Scandinavian material, and with his miraculously preserved face Tollund man, has cast a long shadow in Danish art and culture. The violent sacrificial deaths of the bodies have obviously fired the imagination as has Tacitus' suggestion of ... Read more
This beautifully written book explores the Iron Age bog bodies of northern Europe as cultural artefacts, objects of fascination to archaeologists and antiquaries, but also to artists, poets, philosophers and psychologists. Sanders describes the wide range of responses which the bodies have produced from such diverse figures as Sigmund Freud, Seumus Heaney, William Carols Willams and Margaret Attwood. She is particularly strong on Scandinavian material, and with his miraculously preserved face Tollund man, has cast a long shadow in Danish art and culture. The violent sacrificial deaths of the bodies have obviously fired the imagination as has Tacitus' suggestion of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226734057
SKU
9780226734057
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About Karin Sanders
Karin Sanders is professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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