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Dressing the Part
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Gender
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individual identity
Las Higueras
material science
Maya Queens
Mesoamerica
Native American
Olmec
ornaments
Paracas Necropolis
personal ornaments
Power
power and authority
Pre-Columbian
pre-Columbian cultures
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Rogan plates
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Social relations
southwest
symbols of power
textiles
twined bags
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wardrobe
Product details
- ISBN 9780813062211
- Weight: 633g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 2017
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Costume can reveal a wealth of information about an individual’s identity within society. Dressing the Part looks at the ways individuals in the ancient Americas used clothing, hairstyle, and personal ornaments to express status and power, gender identity, and group affiliations, even from the grave. While most gender studies of Pre-Columbian societies focus on women, these essays also foreground men and persons of multiple or ambiguous gender. Dressing the Part examines how individual identity played a role in larger schemes of social relationship in the ancient Americas. Employing a variety of theories and methodologies from art history, anthropology, ethnography, semiotics, and material science, contributors to this volume explore not only how power is gendered or related to gender but also how the dynamics between power and gender are negotiated through costume.
