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Bodies in the bog and the archaeological imagination / Karin Sanders

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vernon_accession 3383
vernon_id 7203
vernon_slug bodies-in-the-bog-and-the-archaeological-imagination-karin-sanders
vernon_authors Karin Sanders
vernon_tags History, Archaeology, Human remains (Archaeology), Bog bodies
vernon_production_date 2009
vernon_brief_description 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. 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 range of responses is rooted in their unique status as both archaeological artifacts and human beings.
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vernon_isbn_issn 9780226734040
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