Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives
Redaktion: Harris, Susanna; Douny, Laurence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 245
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315415635
• Artikelnr.: 45259880

Autorenporträt

Susanna Harris, Laurence Douny

Inhaltsangabe

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;