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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"body worlds"”.
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Cutting Edge: Re-reading Iconography in Body Worlds
… belonging to <em>Gunther von Hagen’s</em> <em>Body Worlds</em>. While academic readers typically exclude these bodies from conversations of art history, in position, one body, <em>Reclining Pregnant Woman</em>, assumes a particularly referential pose from art historical and archetypal Venuses. …
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Death, Dying and Dark Tourism in Contemporary Society: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
… Visitor Centre at Ground Zero (New York), Body Worlds exhibition at the O2 Arena (London), and the Dungeon visitor attractions (York and London). The research finds that in a contemporary secular age where ordinary and normal death is sequestered behind medical and professional façades, yet …
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Heads, shoulders, knees and toes: Exploring bodies, body parts and personhood in late Neolithic Malta through funerary taphonomy
This research addresses the body and personhood in late Neolithic Malta (c. 3600–2300 cal BC) by reconstructing funerary practices at two collective burial sites: the Xemxija Tombs (Malta) and Xagħra Circle (Gozo). The range and sequence of funerary practices are identified through implementing …