Contested bodies : corporeal transformations in twentieth century conflict
Research was conducted to increase understandings of the human body and its contributions to material culture and embodied experience, and its position in relation to concepts of ethnicity in twentieth century conflict. A multidisciplinary research framework was created. Adopting a constructivist position, analytical concepts were drawn from archaeology, anthropology, material culture studies and psychology, and theories of embodiment and material culture entanglements in particular directed the approach taken. The interpretive framework was applied to analysis of three studies, to identify and analyse perceptions and behaviours towards the human body and its materiality, the contested emotional and psychological meanings behind those actions and their relationship to specific constructions of ethnicity. The case studies synthesised data from a variety of sources, including documents, oral testimonies and images. Each case study was grounded in a thorough understanding of the cultural, political and historical context to identify the emergence of concepts of ethnicity and the body. The results reveal multiple, complex ways in which the human body - through its appearance, its material and physical presence,
Callow, Susannah Mary
Contested bodies : corporeal transformations in twentieth century conflict. Research was conducted to increase understandings of the human body and its contributions to material culture and embodied experience, and its position in relation to concepts of ethnicity in twentieth century conflict. A multidisciplinary research framework was created. Adopting a constructivist position, analytical concepts were drawn from archaeology, anthropology, material culture studies and psychology, and theories of embodiment and material culture entanglements in particular directed the approach taken. The interpretive framework was applied to analysis of three studies, to identify and analyse perceptions and behaviours towards the human body and its materiality, the contested emotional and psychological meanings behind those actions and their relationship to specific constructions of ethnicity. The case studies synthesised data from a variety of sources, including documents, oral testimonies and images. Each case study was grounded in a thorough understanding of the cultural, political and historical context to identify the emergence of concepts of ethnicity and the body. The results reveal multiple, complex ways in which the human body - through its appearance, its material and physical presence,
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