Adornment
What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are
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 adornmen…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-12101-0
- EAN: 9781350121010
- Produktnummer: 33292447
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 8'833 KB
- Abbildungen: 20 b&w and 20 colour images
Über den Autor
Stephen Davies is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is an inaugural Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of the Humanities and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He is a former President of the American Society for Aesthetics and Vice-President of the International Association for Aesthetics. He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Philosophy Compass, and Rivista di Estetica, he is a consulting editor for Res Musica and Philosophy of Music Education Review, and he is co-editor for aesthetics in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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