Dressing the Part

Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas

Sarahh Scher, Billie J. Follensbee (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2017
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-6221-1 (ISBN)

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Costume can reveal a wealth of information about an individual’s identity within society. Dressing the Part looks at the ways individuals in the ancient Americas used clothing, hairstyle, and personal ornaments to express status and power, gender identity, and group affiliations, even from the grave. While most gender studies of Pre-Columbian societies focus on women, these essays also foreground men and persons of multiple or ambiguous gender. Dressing the Part examines how individual identity played a role in larger schemes of social relationship in the ancient Americas. Employing a variety of theories and methodologies from art history, anthropology, ethnography, semiotics, and material science, contributors to this volume explore not only how power is gendered or related to gender but also how the dynamics between power and gender are negotiated through costume.

Sarahh E. M. Scher is a visiting lecturer in art history at Salem State University. Billie J. A. Follensbee is professor of art history and museum studies program coordinator at Missouri State University.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2017
Zusatzinfo	149 black & white illustrations, 7 maps
Verlagsort	Florida
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 233 mm
Gewicht	633 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8130-6221-7 / 0813062217
ISBN-13	978-0-8130-6221-1 / 9780813062211
Zustand	Neuware