The Social Lives of Figurines: Recontextualizing the Third-Millennium-BC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa

The Social Lives of Figurines: Recontextualizing the Third-Millennium-BC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa

This book is a critical examination of representations of the body in the Indus civilization, focusing on the anthropomorphic terracotta figurines from Harappa and using more flexible notions of sex, gender, and sexuality to explore Indus conceptions of sexual difference as it relates to other aspec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharri Clark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ACoSt - Association for Coroplastic Studies 2017-04-01
Series:Les Carnets de l’ACoSt
Subjects:
Harappa
Indus Valley
Harappa figurines
Indus civilizations
Indus ideaology
Indus society
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/acost/1009
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Summary:This book is a critical examination of representations of the body in the Indus civilization, focusing on the anthropomorphic terracotta figurines from Harappa and using more flexible notions of sex, gender, and sexuality to explore Indus conceptions of sexual difference as it relates to other aspects of social difference and identity.
ISSN:2431-8574

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