Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us about Who We Are 9781350120983

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Автор: Davies Stephen
Название: Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us about Who We Are
ISBN: 9781350120983
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Философия: Логика

Антропология

ISBN-10: 1350120987
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 280
Вес: 0.38 кг.
Дата издания: 09.01.2020
Серия: Philosophy
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 20 b&w and 20 colour images
Размер: 137 x 216 x 28
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Ключевые слова: Philosophy: aesthetics,Anthropology, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
Подзаголовок: What self-decoration tells us about who we are
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Поставляется из: Англии
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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.

Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us about Who We Are, Davies Stephen