What shall I say of clothes? : theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of dress in Antiquity / edited by Megan Cifarelli and Laura Gawlinski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cifarelli, Megan, 1965- contributor, editor.

Gawlinski, Laura, contributor, editor.

Archaeological Institute of America, issuing body.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Selected papers on ancient art and architecture ; no. 3.

Selected papers on ancient art and architecture ; number 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress--History--To 500.

Clothing and dress.

History.

Clothing and dress--History--Medieval, 500-1500.

Clothing and dress--Medieval.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 223 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Archaeological Institute of America, 2017.

Summary:

The essays in this volume engage explicitly in a variety of theoretical and methodological strategies for the interpretation of dress, dressed bodies, and their representations in the ancient world. Focusing on personal ornaments, portraiture, and architectural sculpture, the collected papers investigate the visual, somatic, and semantic significance of the act of getting dressed, what it meant to be dressed in various ways, and how dress contributed to and shaped identities in antiquity. Authors draw from a wide range of disciplinary frameworks, integrating literary and archaeological evidence, experimental archaeology, social theory and the study of iconography. This volume spans a broad area both geographically and chronologically, bringing the ancient Near East into dialogue with the classical world from prehistory through late antiquity. The breadth and inclusivity of this volume provide a strong theoretical and methodological foundation for the collaborative study of the dynamic role of dressed bodies and images that depict them. Contributors are Emma L. Baysal, Eric Beckmann, Ayse Bursali, Megan Cifarelli, Laura Gawlinski, Maura Heyn, Neville McFerrin, Kiersten Neumann, Hadi Özbal, Rana Özbal, Josephine Verduci, Alissa Whitmore, Elizabeth Wueste, and Baris Yagci. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Getting dressed. Gods among men : fashioning the divine image in Assyria / Kiersten Neumann ; Early Iron Age adornment with southern Levantine mortuary contexts : an argument for existential significance in understanding material culture / Josephine A. Verduci

Being dressed. Fascinating Fascina : apotropaic magic and how to wear a penis / Allisa M. Whitmore ; Color-coded : the relationship between color, iconography, and theory in Hellenistic and Roman gemstones / Eric Beckman ; Surface tensions on Etruscan and Greek gold jewelry / Alexis Q. Castor ; Costly choices : signaling theory and dress in period IVb Hasanlu, Iran / Megan Cifarelli

Dress and identity. Neolithic blue beads in northwest Turkey : the social significance of Skeuomorphism / Aysȩ Bursalt, Rana Oz̈bal, Emmal Baysal, Hadi Oz̈bal, Baris ̧Yagc̆t ; Fabrics of inclusion : deep wearing and the potentials of materiality on the Apadana reliefs Neville McFerrin ; Theorizing religious dress / Laura Gawlinski ; The costumes of late antique honorific monuments : conformity and divergence within the public and political sphere / Elizabeth Wueste ; Western men, Eastern women? dress and cultural identity in Roman Palmyra / Maura K. Heyn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781931909341

1931909342

OCLC:

962231479