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Adornment
- What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are
Engelsk Paperback
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Adornment
- What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are
Engelsk Paperback

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Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in human prehistory, ancient civilizations, hunter-foragers, and present-day industrial societies to tell a captivating story of hair, skin, and make-up practices across times and cultures.

From the decline of the hat, the function of jewelry and popularity of tattooing to the wealth of grave goods found in the Upper Paleolithic burials and body painting of the Nuba, we see that there is no one who does not adorn themselves, their possessions, or their environment. But what messages do these adornments send? Drawing on aesthetics, evolutionary history, archaeology, ethology, anthropology, psychology, cultural history, and gender studies, Stephen Davies brings together African, Australian and North and South American indigenous cultures and unites them around the theme of adornment. He shows us that adorning is one of the few social behaviors that is close to being genuinely universal, more typical and extensive than the high-minded activities we prefer to think of as marking our species – religion, morality, and art.

Each chapter shows how modes of decoration send vitally important signals about what we care about, our affiliations and backgrounds, our social status and values. In short, by using the theme of bodily adornment to unify a very diverse set of human practices, this book tells us about who we are.



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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9781350120983
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1350120987
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Udg. Dato:
9 jan 2020
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
216mm
Højde:
137mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
9 jan 2020
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