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OverviewWhile traditional studies of dress and jewellery have tended to focus purely on reconstruction or descriptions of style, chronology and typology, the social context of costume is now a major research area in archaeology. This refocusing is largely a result of the close relationship between dress and three currently popular topics: identity, bodies and material culture. Not only does dress constitute an important means by which people integrate and segregate to form group identities, but interactions between objects and bodies, quintessentially illustrated by dress, can also form the basis of much wider symbolic systems. Consequently, archaeological understandings of clothing shed light on some of the fundamental aspects of society, hence our intentionally unconditional title. Dress and Society illustrates the range of current archaeological approaches to dress using a number of case studies drawn from prehistoric to post-medieval Europe. Individually, each chapter makes a strong contribution in its own field whether through the discussion of new evidence or new approaches to classic material. Presenting the eight papers together creates a strong argument for a theoretically informed and integrated approach to dress as a specific category of archaeological evidence, emphasising that the study of dress not only draws openly on other disciplines, but is also a sub-discipline in its own right. However, rather than delimiting dress to a specialist area of research we seek to promote it as fundamental to any holistic archaeological understanding of past societies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: T. F. Martin , R. WeetchPublisher: Oxbow Books Imprint: Oxbow Books ISBN: 9781785703157ISBN 10: 1785703153 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 28 February 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction: dress and society Toby F. Martin and Rosie Weetch 2. Combination, composition and context: readdressing British Middle Bronze Age ornament hoards (c.1400-1100 cal. BC) Neil Wilkin 3. Personal objects and personal identity in the Iron Age: the case of the earliest brooches Sophie Adams 4. `Doing brooches': theorising brooches of the Roman Northwest (first to third centuries AD) Tatiana Ivleva 5. The Roman military belt - a status symbol and object of fashion Stefanie Hoss 6. Middle Anglo-Saxon dress accessories in life and death: expressions of a worldview Alexandra Knox 7. `Best' gowns, kerchiefs and pantofles: gifts of apparel in the north east of England in the 16th century Eleanor Standley 8. Redressing the balance: dress accessories of the non-elites in Early Modern England Natasha Awais-Dean 9. Cultural presumptions and curatorial context reassessing the `highland brooch' of early modern Scotland Stuart CampbellReviewsThe discussions highlight the difficulties of studying identity and past societies, but more importantly they raise plenty of questions and show new ways of thinking about some familiar but often overlooked objects, leading the way for future research in the field. --LM (06/01/2017) The discussions highlight the difficulties of studying identity and past societies, but more importantly they raise plenty of questions and show new ways of thinking about some familiar but often overlooked objects, leading the way for future research in the field. --LM (6/1/2017 12:00:00 AM) The discussions highlight the difficulties of studying identity and past societies, but more importantly they raise plenty of questions and show new ways of thinking about some familiar but often overlooked objects, leading the way for future research in the field. --LM Current Archaeology (06/01/2017) Author InformationToby Martin is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Oxford specialising in the material culture of early medieval Europe. Rosie Weetch is a research fellow at the University of Birmingham and curator at the Museum of the Order of St John in Clerkenwell, London. She has worked on material culture from across the whole medieval period, with a particular interest in dress accessories. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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