Research Clusters
Politics, Identity, and the Body
This cluster centres on themes such gender and age, death and burial, iconography and representation, and ontology and cosmology. Its nucleus has been provided by the 'Changing Beliefs of the Human Body' project, which incorporates a large number of researchers from Cambridge. The ongoing research of this cluster focuses upon themes of bodies and politics to call attention to the body as a social construction lying at the heart of identity, experience, and social relations. A major theme is burial as an integral part of social action, reflected both theoretically and in studies ranging from the Neolithic to the later prehistoric and early medieval periods.
Researchers and scholars involved with the Politics, Identity, and the Body cluster include:
- Dr Dusan Boric
- Dr Gilly Carr
- Craig Cessford
- Dr Helen Geake
- Dr Susan Hakenbeck
- Dr Lila Janik
- Dr Sam Lucy
- Dr Preston Miracle
- Prof. Robin Osborne
- Dr Katharina Rebay
- Dr John Robb
- Dr Marie-Louise Sørensen
- Prof. Marilyn Strathern
- Dr Simon Stoddart
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