Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination by Sanders, Karin - 2009-12-01

University of Chicago Press, 2009-12-01. hardcover. Used: Good.

Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. hardcover, sharp corners, DJ near fine condition, 317 pages, indexed. near fine/near fine. Over the past few centuries, northern Europe's bogs have yielded mummified men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept startlingly intact by the chemical properties of peat. In this remarkable account of their modern afterlives, Karin Sanders argues that the discovery of bog bodies began an extraordinary-and ongoing-cultural journey. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Sanders shows, these eerily preserved remains came alive in art and science as material metaphors for such concepts as trauma, nostalgia, and identity. Sigmund Freud, Joseph Beuys, Seamus Heaney, and other major figures have used them to reconsider fundamental philosophical, literary, aesthetic, and scientific concerns. Exploring this intellectual spectrum, Sanders contends that the power of bog bodies to provoke such a wide… Read More

University of Chicago Press, 2009-12-01. hardcover. Used:Good.

Hardback. New. The history has resurrected from northern Europe's bogs several men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept intact by the chemical properties of peat. Offering an account of their modern afterlives, this title argues that the discovery of bog bodies began an extraordinary cultural journey.

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2009. Hardcover. New. 344 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.25 inches.