Fashioned Selves

Dress and Identity in Antiquity

Megan Cifarelli (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2019
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78925-254-5 (ISBN)

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Presents a wide ranging examination of the social roles of dressed bodies in ancient contexts, texts, and images.

The study of dress in antiquity has expanded in the last 20 years, evolving from investigations of costume and ethnicity in ancient art and texts and analyses of terms relating to textiles and their production, to broader studies of the social roles of dressed bodies in ancient contexts, texts, and images. This volume emerges from Approaches to Dress and the Body sessions at the Annual Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research in 2016 and 2017, as well as sessions relating to ancient dress and personal adornment at the Annual Meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America in 2018. Following the broad notion of dress first presented in Eicher and Roach-Higgins in 1992 as the “assemblage of modifications of the body and/or supplements to the body,” the contributions to this volume study varied materials, including physical markings on the body, durable goods related to dressed bodies in archaeological contexts, dress as represented in the visual arts as well as in texts, most bringing overlapping bodies of evidence into play.

Examining materials from a range of geographic and chronological contexts including the prehistoric Caucasus, Iran, Mesopotamia, Syria and the Levant, the Aegean, Greece, the Roman world and Late Antique Central Asia, this volume takes as its starting point that dress does not simply function as a static expression of identity or status, inscribed on the body to be “read” by others, but is a dynamic component in the construction, embodiment, performance and transformation of identity.

Megan Cifarelli (PhD, Columbia University) is a Professor of Art History at Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY. Her research focuses on the visual and material cultures of ancient Iran and Iraq in the first millennium BCE, from expressions of Assyrian imperial ideology in large scale relief sculptures to the cultural effects of powerful empires on societies at their margins.

List of contributors

Introduction: Fashioned selves

Megan Cifarelli

Part One: Funerary selves

1 Fashioned identity in the Şərur Valley, Azerbaijan: Kurgan CR8

Jennifer Swerida and Selin Nugent

2 To toggle back and forth: clothing pins and portable identities in the Old Assyrian Period

Nancy Highcock

3 Male dress habits in Roman period Palmyra

Maura Heyn and Rubina Raja

Part Two: Sacred fashions

4 Dressed to heal, protect and rule: vestiges of shamanic praxis in ancient Near Eastern rituals and beliefs

Diana L. Stein

5 A proposal for interpreting the role of colour symbolism in Prepalatial Cretan body adornment

Cynthia S. Colburn

6 Biblical regulation of tattooing in the light of ancient Near Eastern practices

Nili S. Fox

7 Weapons and weaving instruments as symbols of gender in the Ancient Near East

Sophus Helle

8 Israelite high priestly apparel: embodying an identity between human and divine

Christine Palmer

Part Three: Communal selves

9 A feather in your cap: symbols of “Philistine” warrior status?

Josephine A. Verduci

10 Some observations on fringe in Elamite dress

Trudy S. Kawami

11 The impenetrable body: armour and the male nude in Greek art

Marina Haworth

12 Dressed to dazzle, dressed to kill: staging Assurbanipal in the royal lion hunt reliefs from Nineveh

Omar N’Shea

13 Banqueting, dress, and the idealized Sogdian merchant

Betty Hensellek

Part Four: Beyond identity

14 A sense of stone and clay: the inter-corporeal disposition of Minoan glyptic

Emily S. K. Anderson

15 The phenomenology and sensory experience of dress in Mesopotamia: the embodiment of discomfort and pain through dress

Allison K. Thomason

16 The tangible self: embodiment, agency, and the functions of adornment in Achaemenid Persia

Neville McFerrin

Erscheinungsdatum	12.07.2019
Zusatzinfo	b/w and colour
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-78925-254-7 / 1789252547
ISBN-13	978-1-78925-254-5 / 9781789252545
Zustand	Neuware