"Bal proposes that a cultural analysis must find its 'basis in concepts rather than methods.'  My explorations of the various forms bog bodies take in literature and visual representation resemble the sort of cross- disciplinary traveling that Bal has outlined.  The point she makes—that the object at hand becomes animated and malleable when looked at through the concepts of cultural analysis, and not through one particular or inherent methodology—resonates with my own experience of traveling the muddy fields and 'digging' out bog bodies."

Recommended by Karin Sanders, Professor of Scandinavian and author of Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination.