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Scope and content: "While 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"--Publisher description.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: dress and society / 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 / Sophia Adams
• 4. Àctive brooches': theorising brooches of the Roman north-west (first to third centuries AD) / Tatiana Ivleva
• 5. 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 sixteenth century / Eleanor R. Standley
• 8. Redressing the balance: dress accessories of the non-elites in Early Modern England / Natasha Awais-Dean.

Contributors:

Martin, Toby F. , editor

Weetch, Rosie , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Dress and society (Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016 — ISBN 9781785703157; LCCN 2016044909)

Subjects:

Clothing and dress — Europe — History — To 1500

Clothing and dress — Social aspects — Europe — History — To 1500

Identity (Psychology) — Europe — History — To 1500

Human body — Social aspects — Europe — History — To 1500

Material culture — Europe — History — To 1500

Social archaeology — Europe

Europe — Antiquities

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 20, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

GT560 .D74 2017eb

ISBNs:

9781785703164 (electronic book)
1785703161 (electronic book)
9781785703188 (electronic book)
1785703188 (electronic book)
9781785703157 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2016045838

OCLC Numbers:

959965466

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4805220 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp13506463