Audio slideshow: Assembling Bodies

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Tall or short, large or small - the human body comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and that is perhaps why it has been interpreted in so many different ways.

Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is looking at how bodies have been imagined and transformed both culturally and medically.

Take a tour with Senior Curator for Anthropology, Anita Herle.

Music courtesy KPM Music.Slideshow production by Paul Kerley. Publication date 7 September 2009.

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