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Fashioned Selves - Dress and Identity in Antiquity (Paperback)
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Fashioned Selves - Dress and Identity in Antiquity (Paperback)
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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.
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