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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041525311X
• ISBN13: 9780415253116
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"