Material Identities (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Sofaer, Joanna

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Produktbeschreibung

Material Identities examines the way that individuals use material objects as tools for projecting aspects of their identities. * Considers the way identity is fashioned, launched, used, and admired in the material world. * Contributors intervene from the disciplines of art history, anthropology, design and material culture. * Considers contrasting media - painting, print, sculpture, dress, coinage, architecture, furniture, luxury items, and interior design. * Explores the complexity of identity through the intersection notions of gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, and class. * Reaffirms the central role of public identities and their impact on social life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470693285
• Artikelnr.: 38191970

Autorenporträt

Joanna Sofaer is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. She is the author of The Body as Material Culture: A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology (2006), editor of Children and Material Culture (2000) and co-editor, with Dana Arnold, of Biographies and Space (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Preface.
List of Illustrations.
Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Materiality and Identity (Joanna Sofaer).
PART I: PROJECTING IDENTITIES.
1. Mai/Omai in London and the South Pacific: Perfomativity, Cultural
Entanglement, and Indigenous Appropriation (Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones).
2. Projecting Identities in the Greek Symposion (Robin Osborne).
PART II: MATERIAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS.
3. Bernini Struts (Michael Cole).
4. Architectural Style and Identity in Egypt (Doris Behrens-Abouseif).
5. Identifying the Body: Representing Self. Art, Ornamentation and the Body
In Later Prehistoric Europe (Fay Stevens).
PART III: POLITICS AND IDENTITY.
6. Aristocratic Identity: Regency Furniture and the Egyptian Revival Style
(Abigail Harrison-Moore).
7. Architecture, Power, and Politics: The Forum-Basilica in Roman Britain
(Louise Revell).
Bibliography.
Index.