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Bone Broke by Jess Beck is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Tag Archives: Skull
Splanchnocranium
I’ve been reading a lot of research on the bioarchaeology of violence of late, thought-provoking pieces by Haagen Klaus, Deb Martin and Gwen Robbins Schug that detail the ways in which the ideology of oppression is mediated by violence. In theory, this … Continue reading
Posted in Anatomy, Bioarchaeology Vocab, Osteology
Tagged anatomy, bioarchaeology, Christopher Guest, osteology, Skull, Spinal Tap
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Alas, Poor Yorick: The Skulls of Stratford
The image of an actor holding aloft a skull is a familiar cinematic and literary trope. Theatre scholars have noted that the representation is so powerful that it often stands in as a metonymic representation of acting itself (Williamson 2011; … Continue reading
Posted in Cranium, Travel
Tagged Hamlet, osteology, Shakespeare, Skull, Stratford-upon-Avon, Travel, Yorick
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