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Dress and Society : Contributions from Archaeology.

"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 dre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Martin, T. F.
Otros Autores: Weech, R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Havertown : Oxbow Books, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Figures and Tables; Preface; 1. Introduction: dress and society; 2. Combination, composition and context: readdressing British Middle Bronze Age ornament hoards (c. 1400-1100 cal. BC); 3. Personal objects and personal identity in the Iron Age: the case of the earliest brooches; 4. 'Active brooches': theorising brooches of the Roman north-west (first to third centuries AD); 5. The Roman military belt
  • a status symbol and object of fashion; 6. Middle Anglo-Saxon dress accessories in life and death: expressions of a worldview.
  • 7. 'Best' gowns, kerchiefs and pantofles: gifts of apparel in the north-east of England in the sixteenth century8. Redressing the balance: dress accessories of the non-elites in Early Modern England; 9. Cultural presumptions and curatorial context: reassessing the 'highland brooch' of Early Modern Scotland.