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The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break

Author : Steven Sherrill
Publisher : Canongate Books
Release Date : 2009-09-25
ISBN 10 : 9781847676993
Pages : 319 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (995 downloads)

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The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time

Author : Steven Sherrill
Publisher : Blair
Release Date : 2016
ISBN 10 : 0895876736
Pages : 261 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (876 downloads)

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Visits From the Drowned Girl

Author : Steven Sherrill
Publisher : Diversion Books
Release Date : 2014-06-10
ISBN 10 : 9781626813410
Pages : 369 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (418 downloads)

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Bloomsbury Essential Guide for Reading Groups

Author : Susan Osborne
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2008-02-25
ISBN 10 : 9781408149942
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (94 downloads)

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The Locktender's House

Author : Steven Sherrill
Publisher : Diversion Books
Release Date : 2014-06-10
ISBN 10 : 9781626813403
Pages : 378 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (4 downloads)

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Joy, PA

Author : Steven Sherrill
Publisher : LSU Press
Release Date : 2015-02-16
ISBN 10 : 9780807159569
Pages : 0 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (565 downloads)

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Rain Taxi Review of Books

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Publisher :
Release Date : 2000
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105113359892
Pages : 698 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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The Southern Review

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Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : UCD:31175028593849
Pages : 974 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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The Book Review Digest

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Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015057977368
Pages : 1640 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Greece in Print

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Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015057954896
Pages : 406 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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The Publishers Weekly

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Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : UCSD:31822031999170
Pages : 1032 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Body Parts and Bodies Whole

Author : Katharina Rebay-Salisbury
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : NWU:35556040948127
Pages : 158 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download Body Parts and Bodies Whole in PDF Full Online Free by Katharina Rebay-Salisbury and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume grew out of an interdisciplinary discussion held in the context of the Leverhulme-funded project 'Changing Beliefs in the Human Body', through which the image of the body in pieces soon emerged as a potent site of attitudes about the body and associated practices in many periods. Archaeologists routinely encounter parts of human and animal bodies in their excavations. Such fragmentary evidence has often been created through accidental damage and the passage of time - nevertheless, it can also signify a deliberate and meaningful act of fragmentation. As a fragment, a part may acquire a distinct meaning through its enchained relationship to the whole or alternatively it may be used in a more straightforward manner to represent the whole or even act as stand-in for other variables. This collection of papers puts bodily fragmentation into a long-term historical perspective. The temporal spread of the papers collected here indicates both the consistent importance and the varied perception of body parts in the archaeological record of Europe and the Near East. By bringing case studies together from a range of locations and time periods, each chapter brings a different insight to the role of body parts and body wholes and explores the status of the body in different cultural contexts. Many of the papers deal directly with the physical remains of the dead body, but the range of practices and representations covered in this volume confirm the sheer variability of treatments of the body throughout human history. Every one of the contributions shows how looking at how the human body is divided into pieces or parts can give us deeper insights into the beliefs of the particular society which produced these practices and representations.

The Missouri Review

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Release Date : 2013
ISBN 10 : MINN:31951P01185606R
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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South Dakota Review

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Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105213196574
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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The Spectator

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Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : MINN:31951P008940603
Pages : pages
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2008 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market

Author : Lauren Mosko
Publisher : Writers Digest Books
Release Date : 2007-08-20
ISBN 10 : 1582974985
Pages : 664 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (974 downloads)

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The Literary Review

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Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105114622652
Pages : 420 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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