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OverviewDress has always been a social medium. Color, fabric, and fit of clothing, along with adornments, posture, and manners, convey information on personal status, occupation, religious beliefs, and even sexual preferences. Clothing and adornment are therefore important not only for their utility but also in their expressive properties and the ability of the wearer to manipulate those properties. Diana DiPaolo Loren investigates some ways in which colonial peoples chose to express their bodies and identities through clothing and adornment. She examines strategies of combining local-made and imported goods not simply to emulate European elites, but instead to create a language of new appearance by which to communicate in an often contentious colonial world. Through the lens of historical archaeology Loren highlights the active manipulation of the material culture of clothing and adornment by people in English, Dutch, French, and Spanish colonies, demonstrating that within Northern American dressing traditions, clothing and identity are inextricably linked. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Diana Dipaolo LorenPublisher: University Press of Florida Imprint: University Press of Florida Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9780813038032ISBN 10: 0813038030 Pages: 140 Publication Date: 31 July 2011 Audience: General/trade , General 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 ContentsReviewsHighly readable but also innovative in its approach to a broad array of material from diverse colonial contexts. - Carolyn White, University of Nevada, Reno Loren brings together a sampling of the extensive literature on the archaeology of clothing and adornment to argue that artifacts of the body acquire their meaning through cultural practice. She shows how dress serves as social discourse and a tool of identity negotiation. - Kathleen Deagan, Florida Museum of Natural History Highly readable but also innovative in its approach to a broad array of material from diverse colonial contexts. - Carolyn White, University of Nevada, Reno Loren brings together a sampling of the extensive literature on the archaeology of clothing and adornment to argue that artifacts of the body acquire their meaning through cultural practice. She shows how dress serves as social discourse and a tool of identity negotiation. - Kathleen Deagan, Florida Museum of Natural History Author InformationDiana DiPaolo Loren is Associate Curator at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |