Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives.
Title:
Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives.
Author:
Harris, Susanna.
ISBN:
9781611328899
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Publication Information:
Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (246 pages).
Series:
UNIV COL LONDON INST ARCH PUB
UNIV COL LONDON INST ARCH PUB.
Contents:
List of Illustrations; Preface; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1. Wrapping and Unwrapping, Concepts and Approaches -- Laurence Douny and 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 -- Titika Malkogeorgou.
Chapter 5. Wrapping and Unwrapping the Body: Lace, Magic, and Modernity -- Nicolette MakovickyPart 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 WillsPart 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 Mespotamian Textile Wrappings -- Agnes Garcia-Ventura and Mireia Lopez-Bertran.
Chapter 12. Wrapped in Images: Body Metaphors, Petroglyphs, and Landscapes in the Island World of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) -- Karina Croucher and Colin RichardsIndex; About the Authors.
Abstract:
This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using examples as diverse as baby swaddling, Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, lace underwear, textile clothing, and contemporary African silk, the dozen archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place. Employing methods of artifact analysis, microscopy, and participant observation, the cont.
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