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Published 2023
Growing up in the Cis-Baikal region of Siberia, Russia : reconstructing childhood diet of Middle Holocene hunter-gatherers /

: This volume analyses the dietary life histories of prehistoric hunter-gatherers from six cemeteries in the Lake Baikal region of Siberia, Russia. The overarching goal was to better understand how they lived by examining what they ate, how they utilized the landscape, and how this changed over time.
: Also issued in print: 2023. : 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (colour) : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781803274942 (PDF ebook) :

Published 1998
Paralysin cave : impotence, perception, and text in the Satyrica of Petronius /

: This volume explores the literary representation of male sexual dysfunction and discusses the natural and supernatural elements of an ancient folk medical system based on conceptual associations between male sexuality and specific plants, animals and minerals. The work incorporates material from both literary and scientific sources to draw parallels between ancient and modern paradigms of healing. The literary depiction of attempts to remedy impotence demonstrates how an accessibility to cures contributes to the sexual and social reintegration of the sufferer. The Satyrica of Petronius echoes this process by means of the text itself and so effects similar ends. The book provides new insights into literature and the ancient belief systems underlying it with its original and integrative approach to disciplines such as philology, botany, mineralogy, zoology and medicine.
: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1993. : 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-244) and indexes. : 9789004330962 : 0169-8958 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2004
Bodywork: Dress as Cultural Tool : Dress and Demeanour in the South of Senegal /

: This book looks at the encounter between dress and the body. In the social sciences, dress tends to be viewed as a form of communication, a way in which the wearer gives expression to his or her ideas or situation. 'Bodywork', rather than looking at what people do with their clothes, looks at what clothes do with the wearers. In the context of three small West African communities - Muslim, Christian and Animist - the book describes the dress styles and dress practices of the villagers and shows how a particular way of dressing influences the body's demeanour and habit. It considers thereby the role played by dress in the enculturation of the body.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789047406402
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