Embodied Lives:: Figuring Ancient Maya and Egyptian Experience

by Lynn Meskell and Rosemary A. Joyce

Book Overview

Examining a wide range of archaeological data, and using it to explore issues such as the sexual body, mind/body dualism, body modification, and magical practices, Lynn Meskell and Rosemary Joyce offer a new approach to the Ancient Egyptian and Mayan understanding of embodiment. Drawing on insights from feminist theory, art history, phenomenology, anthropology and psychoanalysis, the book takes bodily materiality as a crucial starting point to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415253101
• ISBN13: 9780415253109
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"