The Archaeology Of Clothing And Bodily Adornment In Colonial America

Author : Diana DiPaolo Loren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0813038030

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The Archaeology of Clothing and Bodily Adornment in Colonial America by Diana DiPaolo Loren Pdf

"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 Dress 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.

Author : Carolyn L. White
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Dress accessories
ISBN : 0759105898

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American Artifacts of Personal Adornment, 1680-1820 by Carolyn L. White Pdf

The first comprehensive guide to identifying and interpreting items such as buttons, clasps, buckles, combs, and other items of personal adornment in early American museum collections and archaeological sites.

Author : Sheri A. Lullo,Leslie V. Wallace
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351268301

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The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Adornment by Sheri A. Lullo,Leslie V. Wallace Pdf

The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Adornment examines the significance of adornment to the shaping of identity in mortuary contexts within Central and East Asia and brings these perspectives into dialogue with current scholarship in other worldwide regions. Adornment and dress are well-established fields of study for the ancient world, particularly with regard to Europe and the Americas. Often left out of this growing discourse are contributions from scholars of Central and East Asia. The mortuary contexts of focus in this volume represent unique sites and events where identity was visualized, and often manipulated and negotiated, through material objects and their placement on and about the deceased body. The authors examine ornaments, jewelry, clothing, and hairstyles to address questions of identity construction regarding dimensions such as gender and social and political status, and transcultural exchange from burials of prehistoric and early historical archaeological sites in Central Asia, China, Korea, and Japan. In both breadth and depth, this book will be of interest to students and scholars interested in the archaeology, art, and history of Central and East Asia, as well as anyone interested in the general study of dress and adornment.

Author : Hannah V. Mattson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789255980

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Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity by Hannah V. Mattson Pdf

Objects of adornment have been a subject of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic study for well over a century. Within archaeology, personal ornaments have traditionally been viewed as decorative embellishments associated with status and wealth, materializations of power relations and social strategies, or markers of underlying social categories such as those related to gender, class, and ethnic affiliation. Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity seeks to understand these artefacts not as signals of steady, pre-existing cultural units and relations, but as important components in the active and contingent constitution of identities. Drawing on contemporary scholarship on materiality and relationality in archaeological and social theory, this book uses one genre of material culture - items of bodily adornment - to illustrate how humans and objects construct one another. Providing case studies spanning 10 countries, three continents, and more than 9,000 years of human history, the authors demonstrate the myriad and dynamic ways personal ornaments were intertwined with embodied practice and identity performativity, the creation and remaking of social memories, and relational collections of persons, materials, and practices in the past. The authors’ careful analyses of production methods and composition, curation/heirlooming and reworking, decorative attributes and iconography, position within assemblages, and depositional context illuminate the varied material and relational axes along which objects of adornment contained social value and meaning. When paired with the broad temporal and geographic scope collectively represented by these studies, we gain a deeper appreciation for the subtle but vital roles these items played in human lives.

Author : Lee M. Panich,Sara L. Gonzalez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000403619

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Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interaction in the Americas by Lee M. Panich,Sara L. Gonzalez Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interaction in the Americas brings together scholars from across the hemisphere to examine how archaeology can highlight the myriad ways that Indigenous people have negotiated colonial systems from the fifteenth century through to today. The contributions offer a comprehensive look at where the archaeology of colonialism has been and where it is heading. Geographically diverse case studies highlight longstanding theoretical and methodological issues as well as emerging topics in the field. The organization of chapters by key issues and topics, rather than by geography, fosters exploration of the commonalities and contrasts between historical contingencies and scholarly interpretations. Throughout the volume, Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors grapple with the continued colonial nature of archaeology and highlight Native perspectives on the potential of using archaeology to remember and tell colonial histories. This volume is the ideal starting point for students interested in how archaeology can illuminate Indigenous agency in colonial settings. Professionals, including academic and cultural resource management archaeologists, will find it a convenient reference for a range of topics related to the archaeology of colonialism in the Americas.

Author : Nancy O'Malley
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813177632

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Boonesborough Unearthed by Nancy O'Malley Pdf

Throughout the Revolutionary War, Fort Boonesborough was one of the most important and defensively crucial sites on the western frontier. It served not only as a stronghold against the British but also as a sanctuary, land office, and a potential seat of government. Originally meant to be the capital of a new American colony, Fort Boonesborough was thrust into a defensive role by the onset of the Revolutionary War. Post-Revolutionary attempts to develop a town failed and the site was abandoned. Yet Fort Boonesborough lived on in local memory. Boonesborough Unearthed: Frontier Archaeology at a Revolutionary Fort is the result of more than thirty years of research by archaeologist Nancy O'Malley. This groundbreaking book presents new information and fresh insights about Fort Boonesborough and life in frontier Kentucky. O'Malley examines the story of this historical landmark from its founding during a time of war into the nineteenth century. O'Malley also delves into the lives of the settlers who lived there, and explores the Transylvania Company's dashed hopes of forming a fourteenth colony at the fort. This insightful and informative work is a fascinating exploration into Kentucky's frontier past.

Author : Pedro Paulo A. Funari,Maria Ximena Senatore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319080697

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Archaeology of Culture Contact and Colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America by Pedro Paulo A. Funari,Maria Ximena Senatore Pdf

The volume contributes to disrupt the old grand narrative of cultural contact and colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America in a wide and complete sense. This edited volume aims at exploring contact archaeology in the modern era. Archaeology has been exploring the interaction of peoples and cultures from early times, but only in the last few decades have cultural contact and material world been recognized as crucial elements to understanding colonialism and the emergence of modernity. Modern colonialism studies pose questions in need of broader answers. This volume explores these answers in Spanish and Portuguese America, comprising present-day Latin America and formerly Spanish territories now part of the United States. The volume addresses studies of the particular features of Spanish-Portuguese colonialism, as well as the specificities of Iberian colonization, including hybridism, religious novelties, medieval and modern social features, all mixed in a variety of ways unique and so different from other areas, particularly the Anglo-Saxon colonial thrust. Cultural contact studies offer a particularly in-depth picture of the uniqueness of Latin America in terms of its cultural mixture. This volume particularly highlights local histories, revealing novelty, diversity, and creativity in the conformation of the new colonial realities, as well as presenting Latin America as a multicultural arena, with astonishing heterogeneity in thoughts, experiences, practices, and, material worlds.

Author : Christina J. Hodge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107034396

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Consumerism and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Colonial America by Christina J. Hodge Pdf

This study examines the emergence of the middle class and consumerism in colonial America.

Author : Charles R. Cobb
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813057293

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The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Era by Charles R. Cobb Pdf

Honorable Mention, Southern Anthropological Society James Mooney Award Native American populations both accommodated and resisted the encroachment of European powers in southeastern North America from the arrival of Spaniards in the sixteenth century to the first decades of the American republic. Tracing changes to the region’s natural, cultural, social, and political environments, Charles Cobb provides an unprecedented survey of the landscape histories of Indigenous groups across this critically important area and time period.  Cobb explores how Native Americans responded to the hardships of epidemic diseases, chronic warfare, and enslavement. Some groups developed new modes of migration and travel to escape conflict while others built new alliances to create safety in numbers. Cultural maps were redrawn as Native communities evolved into the groups known today as the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Catawba, and Seminole peoples. Cobb connects the formation of these coalitions to events in the wider Atlantic World, including the rise of plantation slavery, the growth of the deerskin trade, the birth of the consumer revolution, and the emergence of capitalism.  Using archaeological data, historical documents, and ethnohistorical accounts, Cobb argues that Native inhabitants of the Southeast successfully navigated the challenges of this era, reevaluating long-standing assumptions that their cultures collapsed under the impact of colonialism. A volume in the series the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective, edited by Michael S. Nassaney

Author : Carolyn White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350226708

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A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry by Carolyn White Pdf

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shifted from the handmade to the machine made. The revolution in making, and in consuming the things which were made, impacted on lives at every scale –from body to home to workplace to city to nation. Beyond the explosion in technology, scientific knowledge, manufacturing, trade, and museums, changes in class structure, politics, ideology, and morality all acted to transform the world of objects. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Carolyn White is Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte

Author : Philipp W. Stockhammer,Eleftheria Pappa,Louise Hitchcock,Aren Maeir,Magdalena Naum,Stephanie Langin-Hooper,Stephan Palmié,Marcus Brittain,Timothy Clack,Juan Salazar Bonet,Diana D. Loren,Hendrik Van Gijseghem,Yigal Levin,Carla M. Antonaccio,Bettina Bader,Mary C. Beaudry,Parker VanValkenburgh,Geoffrey G. McCafferty,Carrie L. Dennett
Publisher : Archaeological Review from Cambridge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Archaeology and Cultural Mixture by Philipp W. Stockhammer,Eleftheria Pappa,Louise Hitchcock,Aren Maeir,Magdalena Naum,Stephanie Langin-Hooper,Stephan Palmié,Marcus Brittain,Timothy Clack,Juan Salazar Bonet,Diana D. Loren,Hendrik Van Gijseghem,Yigal Levin,Carla M. Antonaccio,Bettina Bader,Mary C. Beaudry,Parker VanValkenburgh,Geoffrey G. McCafferty,Carrie L. Dennett Pdf

Author : Audrey Horning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350226678

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A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment by Audrey Horning Pdf

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1600 to 1760, a time marked by the movement of people, ideas and goods. The objects explored in this volume –from scientific instrumentation and Baroque paintings to slave ships and shackles –encapsulate the contradictory impulses of the age. The entwined forces of capitalism and colonialism created new patterns of consumption, facilitated by innovations in maritime transport, new forms of exchange relations, and the exploitation of non-Western peoples and lands. The world of objects in the Enlightenment reveal a Western material culture profoundly shaped by global encounters. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Audrey Horning is Professor at William & Mary, USA, and at Queen's University Belfast, UK. Volume 4 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte

Author : Christopher Breward,Beverly Lemire,Giorgio Riello
Publisher : Cambridge History of Fashion
Page : 759 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108495561

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The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1 by Christopher Breward,Beverly Lemire,Giorgio Riello Pdf

Explores how the long history of fashion from antiquity to c. 1800 created global networks and animated world communities.

Author : Stephen W. Silliman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119240532

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Engaging Archaeology by Stephen W. Silliman Pdf

Bringing together 25 case studies from archaeological projects worldwide, Engaging Archaeology candidly explores personal experiences, successes, challenges, and even frustrations from established and senior archaeologists who share invaluable practical advice for students and early-career professionals engaged in planning and carrying out their own archaeological research. With engaging chapters, such as ‘How Not to Write a PhD Thesis on Neolithic Italy’ and ‘Accidentally Digging Central America's Earliest Village’, readers are transported to the desks, digs, and data-labs of the authors, learning the skills, tricks of the trade, and potential pit-falls of archaeological fieldwork and collections research. Case studies collectively span many regions, time periods, issues, methods, and materials. From the pre-Columbian Andes to Viking Age Iceland, North America to the Middle East, Medieval Ireland to remote north Australia, and Europe to Africa and India, Engaging Archaeology is packed with rich, first-hand source material. Unique and thoughtful, Stephen W. Silliman’s guide is an essential course book for early-stage researchers, advanced undergraduates, and new graduate students, as well as those teaching and mentoring. It will also be insightful and enjoyable reading for veteran archaeologists.

Author : Sophie White
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207170

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Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians by Sophie White Pdf

Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race. At the heart of France's seventeenth-century plans for colonizing New France was a formal policy—Frenchification. Intended to turn Indians into Catholic subjects of the king, it also carried with it the belief that Indians could become French through religion, language, and culture. This fluid and mutable conception of identity carried a risk: while Indians had the potential to become French, the French could themselves be transformed into Indians. French officials had effectively admitted defeat of their policy by the time Louisiana became a province of New France in 1682. But it was here, in Upper Louisiana, that proponents of French-Indian intermarriage finally claimed some success with Frenchification. For supporters, proof of the policy's success lay in the appearance and material possessions of Indian wives and daughters of Frenchmen. Through a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to the material sources, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians offers a distinctive and original reading of the contours and chronology of racialization in early America. While focused on Louisiana, the methodological model offered in this innovative book shows that dress can take center stage in the investigation of colonial societies—for the process of colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance.