Material Identities

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3234-3
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sofaer, Joanna

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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).