Wearing Culture -

Wearing Culture

Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America

Heather Orr, Matthew Looper (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
544 Seiten
2014
University Press of Colorado (Verlag)
978-1-60732-281-8 (ISBN)
89,95 inkl. MwSt
Wearing Culture connects scholars of divergent geographical areas and academic fields—from archaeologists and anthropologists to art historians—to show the significance of articles of regalia and of dressing and ornamenting people and objects among the Formative period cultures of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America.Documenting the elaborate practices of costume, adornment, and body modification in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Oaxaca, the Soconusco region of southern Mesoamerica, the Gulf Coast Olmec region (Olman), and the Maya lowlands, this book demonstrates that adornment was used as a tool for communicating status, social relationships, power, gender, sexuality, behavior, and political, ritual, and religious identities. Despite considerable formal and technological variation in clothing and ornamentation, the early indigenous cultures of these regions shared numerous practices, attitudes, and aesthetic interests. Contributors address technological development, manufacturing materials and methods, nonfabric ornamentation, symbolic dimensions, representational strategies, and clothing as evidence of interregional sociopolitical exchange.

Focusing on an important period of cultural and artistic development through the lens of costuming and adornment, Wearing Culture will be of interest to scholars of pre-Hispanic and pre-Columbian studies.

Heather Orr is chair and professor of art history in the Department of Art at Western State Colorado University. Matthew Looper is professor of art history in the Department of Art and Art History at California State University, Chico.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.3.2014
Verlagsort Colorado
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 952 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Schönheit / Kosmetik
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-60732-281-1 / 1607322811
ISBN-13 978-1-60732-281-8 / 9781607322818
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