Description
Dress has always been a social medium. Color, fabric, and fit of clothing, along with adornments, posture, and manners, convey information on personal status, occupation, religious beliefs, and even sexual preferences. Clothing and adornment are therefore important not only for their utility but also in their expressive properties and the ability of the wearer to manipulate those properties.
Diana DiPaolo Loren investigates some ways in which colonial peoples chose to express their bodies and identities through clothing and adornment. She examines strategies of combining local-made and imported goods not simply to emulate European elites, but instead to create a language of new appearance by which to communicate in an often contentious colonial world.
Through the lens of historical archaeology Loren highlights the active manipulation of the material culture of clothing and adornment by people in English, Dutch, French, and Spanish colonies, demonstrating that within Northern American dressing traditions, clothing and identity are inextricably linked.
About the Author
Diana DiPaolo Loren is Associate Curator at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Reviews
Highly readable but also innovative in its approach to a broad array of material from diverse colonial contexts." - Carolyn White, University of Nevada, Reno
"Loren brings together a sampling of the extensive literature on the archaeology of clothing and adornment to argue that artifacts of the body acquire their meaning through cultural practice. She shows how dress serves as social discourse and a tool of identity negotiation." - Kathleen Deagan, Florida Museum of Natural History
Book Information
ISBN 9780813038032
Author Diana Dipaolo Loren
Format Paperback
Page Count 140
Imprint University Press of Florida
Publisher University Press of Florida
Series The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective
Weight(grams) 333g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 8mm
Diana DiPaolo Loren investigates some ways in which colonial peoples chose to express their bodies and identities through clothing and adornment. She examines strategies of combining local-made and imported goods not simply to emulate European elites, but instead to create a language of new appearance by which to communicate in an often contentious colonial world.
Through the lens of historical archaeology Loren highlights the active manipulation of the material culture of clothing and adornment by people in English, Dutch, French, and Spanish colonies, demonstrating that within Northern American dressing traditions, clothing and identity are inextricably linked.
About the Author
Diana DiPaolo Loren is Associate Curator at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Reviews
Highly readable but also innovative in its approach to a broad array of material from diverse colonial contexts." - Carolyn White, University of Nevada, Reno
"Loren brings together a sampling of the extensive literature on the archaeology of clothing and adornment to argue that artifacts of the body acquire their meaning through cultural practice. She shows how dress serves as social discourse and a tool of identity negotiation." - Kathleen Deagan, Florida Museum of Natural History
Book Information
ISBN 9780813038032
Author Diana Dipaolo Loren
Format Paperback
Page Count 140
Imprint University Press of Florida
Publisher University Press of Florida
Series The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective
Weight(grams) 333g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 8mm
Details
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The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective |
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University Press of Florida |
