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- Title
Making Something of Herself: Embodiment in Life and Death at Playa de los Muertos, Honduras.
- Authors
Rosemary A. Joyce
- Abstract
Through an analysis of hand-modelled human figurines created in the Ulua River Valley of northern Honduras between 900 and 200 bc, this article explores the recursive links between crafting representations of bodies and crafting physical bodies. Playa de los Muertos-style figurines are characterized by extremely detailed treatment of hair and ornaments. They have been treated as unique portraits, each individualized, and have resisted broader archaeological interpretation. Drawing on recent excavation data, this article explores the treatment of bodies and representations of bodies within a single set of interconnected villages as material media of embodiment.
- Subjects
HUMAN figure in art; ARCHAEOLOGY &; art; ARTS; HUMAN body; HUMAN beings in art; FIGURINES
- Publication
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2003, Vol 13, Issue 2, p248
- ISSN
0959-7743
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0959774303240142