Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity
Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity Objects of adornment have been a subject of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic study for well over a century. Personal Adornment and the…
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Personal Adornment and the Construction of Identity
Objects of adornment have been a subject of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic study for well over a century. 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. 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.
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