Adornment
What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are
(Sprache: Englisch)
Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in human prehistory, ancient civilizations, hunter-foragers, and present-day industrial societies to tell a...
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Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in human prehistory, ancient civilizations, hunter-foragers, and present-day industrial societies to tell a captivating story of hair, skin, and make-up practices across times and cultures.From the decline of the hat, the function of jewelry and popularity of tattooing to the wealth of grave goods found in the Upper Paleolithic burials and body painting of the Nuba, we see that there is no one who does not adorn themselves, their possessions, or their environment. But what messages do these adornments send? Drawing on aesthetics, evolutionary history, archaeology, ethology, anthropology, psychology, cultural history, and gender studies, Stephen Davies brings together African, Australian and North and South American indigenous cultures and unites them around the theme of adornment. He shows us that adorning is one of the few social behaviors that is close to being genuinely universal, more typical and extensive than the high-minded activities we prefer to think of as marking our species - religion, morality, and art.
Each chapter shows how modes of decoration send vitally important signals about what we care about, our affiliations and backgrounds, our social status and values. In short, by using the theme of bodily adornment to unify a very diverse set of human practices, this book tells us about who we are.
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AcknowledgmentsList of Illustrations
Preface
1. The Sungir Children
2. What Adornment is
3. Bodily Adornment Practices
4. Aesthetics and Adornment in Prehistory
5. Differences Between Men and Women
6. Body-Painting and Makeup
7. Scarification and Tattoos
8. Piercings, Plugs and Jewelry
9. Clothing
10. Bali: Sungir Writ Large
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Autoren-Porträt von Stephen (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Davies
Stephen Davies is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is an inaugural Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of the Humanities and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He is a former President of the American Society for Aesthetics and Vice-President of the International Association for Aesthetics. He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Philosophy Compass, and Rivista di Estetica, he is a consulting editor for Res Musica and Philosophy of Music Education Review, and he is co-editor for aesthetics in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Stephen (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Davies
- 280 Seiten, 20 farbige Abbildungen, 20 Schwarz-Weiss-Abbildungen, Masse: 14,2 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN-10: 1350120987
- ISBN-13: 9781350120983
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.01.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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