Materiality, Technology, and Constructing Social Knowledge through Bodily Representation
A View from Prehistoric Guernsey, Channel Islands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7175372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheila Kohring (University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 248-263 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-9571 • E-ISSN: 1741-2722 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1179/1461957114y.0000000055 |
| PMID | 26290654 |
| PMCID | PMC4538853 |
| OpenAlex | W2012833252 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 27 |
The role of the human body in the creation of social knowledge—as an ontological and/or aesthetic category—has been applied across social theory. In all these approaches, the body is viewed as a locus for experience and knowledge. If the body is a source of subjective knowledge, then it can also become an important means of creating ontological categories of self and society. The materiality of human representations within art traditions, then, can be interpreted as providing a means for contextualizing and aestheticizing the body in order to produce a symbolic and structural knowledge category. This paper explores the effect of material choices and techniques of production when representing the human body on how societies order and categorize the world
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Body of knowledge · Categorization · Epistemology · Human body · Materiality (auditing · Prehistory · Social knowledge · Social order · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Artificial Intelligence
Making Sex
Art And Agency
The Body in Culture, Technology and Society
Embodiment and experience
Space, Time, and Perversion
Behavior in Public Places
The Body and Social Theory
The Body & Society
Representing people, constituting worlds
Reassembling the Social
Stepping stones
The Materiality of Representation
On the Road to Paradis
Exploring Identity and Place
Local Colour
Pinturas en el arte megalítico atlántico
The Body of the Artisan
People of Stone
Notes on the Recent Discovery of a Human Figure Sculptured on a Capstone of the Dolmen of Dehus, Guernsey
Technology is Society Made Durable
What Makes Anthropomorphism Natural
Somatic Modes of Attention
Morality and Technology
Materials against materiality
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |