{"product_id":"the-material-body-embodiment-history-and-archaeology-in-industrialising-england-1700-1850-9781526152787","title":"The Material Body: Embodiment, History and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume explores the possibilities of studying embodied subjects in the past through the sources and approaches of archaeology, history and material culture studies. It draws on collections of human remains, material culture and documentary evidence from Britain during the period 1700–1850, considering the themes of gender, rank, age, disability and maternity. Each chapter looks at the lived experiences of the material body, bringing together disciplines that share an interest in the material or embodied turn. Combining archaeological and historical data to reconstruct embodied experiences, the volume represents the first collection of genuinely collaborative scholarship by historians and archaeologists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: the material body in archaeology and history – Elizabeth Craig-Atkins and Karen Harvey\u003cbr\u003e1        Archives of embodiment: body and experience in the archaeological and historical record – Karen Harvey\u003cbr\u003e2        Marking maternity: integrating historical and archaeological evidence for reproduction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries – Elizabeth Craig-Atkins and Mary E. Fissell \u003cbr\u003e3        Embodying the history of shoes: footwear and gender in Britain, 1700–1850 – Matthew McCormack\u003cbr\u003e4        ‘The Corporation of Corpse-stealers’: archaeological and historical evidence of bodysnatching in early eighteenth-century London – Robert Hartle\u003cbr\u003e5        Who smokes anymore? Documentary, archaeological and osteological evidence for tobacco consumption and its relationship to social identity in industrial England, 1700–1850 – Anna M. Davies-Barrett and Sarah A. Inskip \u003cbr\u003e6        Uncovering the lives of late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century inhabitants of Bristol through osteoarchaeological and documentary analysis – Heidi Dawson-Hobbis and Jocelyn Davis\u003cbr\u003e7        Disability, gender and old age in the Industrial Revolution: cultural historical and osteoarchaeological perspectives – Sophie L. Newman and David M. Turner\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041018511703,"sku":"9781526152787","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526152787.jpg?v=1750948622","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-material-body-embodiment-history-and-archaeology-in-industrialising-england-1700-1850-9781526152787","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}