Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 161132887X ISBN 13 : 9781611328875

Editeur : Left Coast Press Inc, 2014

Synopsis

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 contributors provide a new lens on material culture and its relationship to cultural meaning.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susanna Harris is British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. She is researching the relationship between textiles and animal skins in prehistoric Europe and the role of cloth-type materials as cloth cultures.

Laurence Douny is an independent scholar, and an honorary research fellow at UCL Department of Anthropology. Since 2001, she has been conducting research in the Dogon region of Mali in West Africa on landscape and material culture issues. She also researches wild silk and indigo techniques in Mali, Burkina Faso, Northern Ivory Coast, and Nigeria. She has written several papers on West African material culture in relation to shrines, domestic waste, heritage, wild silk textiles, and the anthropology of techniques.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Left Coast Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 161132887X
• ISBN 13: 9781611328875
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 245
• Éditeur: Harris Susanna, Douny Laurence
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible