MacGregor, G. (2008). Elemental bodies:. Elemental archaeologies. Vol 40(2), pp. 268-280.
 Title The title of the publication or report |
Elemental bodies: | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subtitle The sub title of the publication or report |
the nature of transformative practices during the late third and second millennium bc in Scotland | ||||
Issue The name of the volume or issue |
Elemental archaeologies | ||||
Series The series the publication or report is included in |
World Archaeology | ||||
Volume Volume number and part |
40 (2) | ||||
Page Start/End The start and end page numbers. |
268 - 280 | ||||
Biblio Note This is a Bibliographic record only. |
Please note that this is a bibliographic record only, as originally entered into the BIAB database. The ADS have no files for download, and unfortunately cannot advise further on where to access hard copy or digital versions. | ||||
Publication Type The type of publication - report, monograph, journal article or chapter from a book |
Journal | ||||
Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report |
a range of social practices during the late third and second millennium bc in Scotland is explored in the paper. The nature of the elemental is also considered and it is suggested that certain practices may have been conceived as elementally transformative in nature due to their perceived ability to effect material changes. The interrelationship between practices in the context of contemporary mortuary and funerary and burnt-mound traditions is examined using a case study from southwest Scotland. The traditional views of what these practices constituted are founded on contemporary terms of reference, such as their function as burial monuments or as locales for cooking. Here, consideration of the evidence suggests that in these different social arenas such practices were in part understood through the ways in which the body was transformed and, in certain circumstances, conceived to be as transformatively potent as other elemental categories | ||||
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published |
2008 | ||||
Locations Any locations covered by the publication or report. This is not the place the book or report was published. |
|
||||
Source Where the record has come from or which dataset it was orginally included in. |
BIAB
(The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
|
||||
Created Date The date the record of the pubication was first entered |
27 Jun 2008 |
