Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination 0th Edition

by Karin Sanders (Author)

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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 range of responses is rooted in their unique status as both archeological artifacts and human beings. They emerge as corporeal time capsules that transcend archaeology to challenge our assumptions about what we can know about the past. By restoring them to the roster of cultural phenomena that force us to confront our ethical and aesthetic boundaries, Bodies in the Bog excavates anew the question of what it means to be human.

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Hardcover: 344 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (December 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226734048
ISBN-13: 978-0226734040
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #315,755 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #71 in Books > History > Ancient Civilizations > Prehistory
- #143 in Books > History > Europe > Scandinavia
- #181 in Books > Textbooks > Social Sciences > Archaeology

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Bog bodies unmasked

By Harriet Nethery on December 30, 2009

Format: Hardcover

This is such a good book. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Karin Sanders examines those mysterious archaeological artifacts known as "bog bodies," corpses found long-buried in the peat fields of Ireland, Britain, and northern Europe. Unlike mummies, bog bodies retain soft tissue while their bones deteriorate, turning them into "sacks of flesh." Because of the soft tissue, they appear quite life-life, even though they may be 1000 years old or more: their faces are largely intact, and may even possess stubble from a day-old beard, and they are often fully clothed. Sanders explains who these mysterious people were, how they died, and how they have come to occupy an important place in the imaginations of historians, poets, artists, philosophers, and ordinary people. A gifted writer, Sanders has penned a book that is at once highly informed and is a work of genuine literary merit.

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By Richard K. Edwards on May 25, 2013

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So many references to Danish literature. So many references to obscure authors I'd never heard of. This book reads like a Ph.D. dissertation that probably bored the review committee into submission. If you're just starting out on reading about bog bodies, you should avoid this book becsue it will kill any interest you have in the subject.

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