Ian Armit

Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age Europe

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the widespread evidence for the removal, curation and display of the human head in Iron Age Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 184mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 641g
• ISBN-13: 9780521877565
• ISBN-10: 0521877563
• Artikelnr.: 34224321

Autorenporträt

Ian Armit is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bradford. The author of more than eighty academic articles, he has also written numerous books, including Anatomy of an Iron Age Roundhouse, Towers in the North: The Brochs of Scotland and Celtic Scotland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Detached fragments of humanity
2. A remarkable spiritual continuity?
3. Shamans on the march
4. Pillars, heads, and corn
5. Neither this world, nor the next
6. From the dead to the living
7. Gods and monsters
8. Bodies of belief.