Reading a Dynamic Canvas: Adornment in the Ancient Mediterranean World - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847184065 ISBN 13: 9781847184061

Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Personal adornment, as an extension of the body, is a crucial component in social interaction. The active process of adorning the body can shape embodied identities, such as social status, ethnicity, gender, and age. As a result of its dynamic and performative nature, the body can often convey meaning more powerfully and convincingly than verbal communication. Yet adornment is not easily read and does not necessarily reflect actual lived experience. Rather, bodily adornment, and the performances that accompany it, can be manipulated to conceal or exaggerate reality, thus speaking more to identity discourse. The interpretation of such discourse must be grounded in an understanding of the context-specific and negotiable nature of adornment. The essays in this volume, which are united by their focus on material and visual evidence, cover a broad chronological and geographical span, from the ancient Near East to Roman Britain, and bring together innovative scholarly work on adornment by an international group of art historians and archaeologists. This attention to the archaeological evidence makes the volume a valuable resource, as those working with material or visual culture face unique methodological and theoretical challenges to the study of adornment.

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Cynthia Colburn is Assistant Professor of Art History at Pepperdine University. Her research focuses on ancient art and archaeology of the Aegean and Near East. She has published on the topics of cultural interaction, distance, adornment, and the body. Maura K. Heyn is an assistant professor in the Department of Classical Studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she researches the archaeology of the Roman provinces. In addition to her work on Palmyrene sculpture, she has also published on cultural change in southern France during the Republican period.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1847184065
• ISBN 13: 9781847184061
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 235
• Herausgeber: Colburn Cynthia S., Heyn Maura K.
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