Using examples as diverse as Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, Native American ceremonial bundles, and contemporary African textiles, twelve archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place.
Using examples as diverse as Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, Native American ceremonial bundles, and contemporary African textiles, twelve archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place.
Preface; Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 Wrapping and Unwrapping Concepts and Approaches Laurence Douny Susanna Harris; Part II Wrapping and Unwrapping the Living; Chapter 2 Aspects of Baby Wrappings: Swaddling Carrying and Wearing Nancy Ukai Russell; Chapter 3 Wrapping and Tying Ancient Egyptian New Kingdom Dresses Janet M. Johnstone; Chapter 4 Reconceptualising Shapes and Bodies: Conservation of an English Eighteenth-Century Court Mantua for the Victoria and Albert Museum Galleries Malkogeorgou Titika; Chapter 5 Wrapping and Unwrapping the Body: Lace Magic and Modernity Nicolette Makovicky; Part III Wrapping and Unwrapping the Dead; Chapter 6 Wrapping the Dead: The Bronze Age Mound Burials of Southern Scandinavia through a Wrapping Analysis Susanna Harris; Chapter 7 Wrapped Up for Safe Keeping: 'Wrapping' Customs in Early Iron Age Europe Margarita Gleba; Chapter 8 Wrapping as an Element of Early Celtic Burial Customs: The Princely Grave from Hochdorf and Its Cultural Context Johanna Banck-Burgess; Chapter 9 Wrapping the Wrapped: The Development of Minimal Conservation of Ancient Human Wrapped Mummies from the Region of the Nile Barbara Wills; Part IV The Materiality of Wrapping: Materials Places and Objects; Chapter 10 Wild Silk Textiles of the Dogon People of Mali: Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Identities Laurence Douny; Chapter 11 Unveiling Clay and Metal: The Context and Use of Mesopotamian Textile Wrappings Agnès Garcia-Ventura Mireia López-Bertran; Chapter 12 Wrapped in Images: Body Metaphors Petroglyphs and Landscape in the Island World of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Karina Croucher Colin Richards;
Preface; Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 Wrapping and Unwrapping Concepts and Approaches Laurence Douny Susanna Harris; Part II Wrapping and Unwrapping the Living; Chapter 2 Aspects of Baby Wrappings: Swaddling Carrying and Wearing Nancy Ukai Russell; Chapter 3 Wrapping and Tying Ancient Egyptian New Kingdom Dresses Janet M. Johnstone; Chapter 4 Reconceptualising Shapes and Bodies: Conservation of an English Eighteenth-Century Court Mantua for the Victoria and Albert Museum Galleries Malkogeorgou Titika; Chapter 5 Wrapping and Unwrapping the Body: Lace Magic and Modernity Nicolette Makovicky; Part III Wrapping and Unwrapping the Dead; Chapter 6 Wrapping the Dead: The Bronze Age Mound Burials of Southern Scandinavia through a Wrapping Analysis Susanna Harris; Chapter 7 Wrapped Up for Safe Keeping: 'Wrapping' Customs in Early Iron Age Europe Margarita Gleba; Chapter 8 Wrapping as an Element of Early Celtic Burial Customs: The Princely Grave from Hochdorf and Its Cultural Context Johanna Banck-Burgess; Chapter 9 Wrapping the Wrapped: The Development of Minimal Conservation of Ancient Human Wrapped Mummies from the Region of the Nile Barbara Wills; Part IV The Materiality of Wrapping: Materials Places and Objects; Chapter 10 Wild Silk Textiles of the Dogon People of Mali: Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Identities Laurence Douny; Chapter 11 Unveiling Clay and Metal: The Context and Use of Mesopotamian Textile Wrappings Agnès Garcia-Ventura Mireia López-Bertran; Chapter 12 Wrapped in Images: Body Metaphors Petroglyphs and Landscape in the Island World of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Karina Croucher Colin Richards;
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