Material Identities
Published on 17. March 2008
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184 pages
978-0-470-69409-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
416 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-69409-1 (9780470694091)
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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).
Content
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.