What can bodies do? Bodies and caves in the Karst Neolithic
This paper discuses ways in which bodies – human and animal – were produced in the Neolithic of the Karst. Bodies are seen as cumulative processes shaped by forces of encounters with the material world, rather than as biological givens. Thus, the paper focuses on the process of embodiment mediated w...
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| description | This paper discuses ways in which bodies – human and animal – were produced in the Neolithic of the Karst. Bodies are seen as cumulative processes shaped by forces of encounters with the material world, rather than as biological givens. Thus, the paper focuses on the process of embodiment mediated with other bodies and landscape, especially important places such as caves. It explores the unique ways in which caves affect bodies, and how these affected bodies created new societies. In the Neolithic Karst, everyday contacts and interactions between humans, animals, the landscape and caves and rock shelters profoundly changed all the participants. A new hybrid society emerged, consisting of human and non-human bodies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a5e0c876098d4bf4a075e354f01db8ed2023-01-18T09:21:03ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Documenta Praehistorica1408-967X1854-24922011-12-013810.4312/dp.38.8What can bodies do? Bodies and caves in the Karst NeolithicDimitrij Mlekuž0Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, Centre for Preventive Archaeology, LjubljanaThis paper discuses ways in which bodies – human and animal – were produced in the Neolithic of the Karst. Bodies are seen as cumulative processes shaped by forces of encounters with the material world, rather than as biological givens. Thus, the paper focuses on the process of embodiment mediated with other bodies and landscape, especially important places such as caves. It explores the unique ways in which caves affect bodies, and how these affected bodies created new societies. In the Neolithic Karst, everyday contacts and interactions between humans, animals, the landscape and caves and rock shelters profoundly changed all the participants. A new hybrid society emerged, consisting of human and non-human bodies.https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/1907bodyaffecthuman animal relationscavesNeolithicKarst |
| spellingShingle | Dimitrij Mlekuž What can bodies do? Bodies and caves in the Karst Neolithic Documenta Praehistorica body affect human animal relations caves Neolithic Karst |
| title | What can bodies do? Bodies and caves in the Karst Neolithic |
| title_full | What can bodies do? Bodies and caves in the Karst Neolithic |
| title_fullStr | What can bodies do? Bodies and caves in the Karst Neolithic |
| title_full_unstemmed | What can bodies do? Bodies and caves in the Karst Neolithic |
| title_short | What can bodies do? Bodies and caves in the Karst Neolithic |
| title_sort | what can bodies do bodies and caves in the karst neolithic |
| topic | body affect human animal relations caves Neolithic Karst |
| url | https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/1907 |
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