Women and the Material Culture of Death, Maureen Daly Goggin, Beth Fowkes Tobin

Название: Women and the Material Culture of Death
ISBN: 1138269522 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138269521
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Описание: Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection focuses on the objects women make, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Women’s material practices, ranging from wearing mourning jewelry to dressing the dead, stitching memorial samplers to constructing skull boxes, collecting funeral programs to collecting and studying diseased hearts, making and collecting taxidermies, and making sculptures honoring the death, are explored in this collection as well as women’s affective responses and sentimental labor that mark their expected and unexpected participation in the social practices surrounding death and the dead. The largely invisible work involved in commemorating and constructing narratives and memorials about the dead-from family members and friends to national figures-calls attention to the role women as memory keepers for families, local communities, and the nation. Women have tended to work collaboratively, making, collecting, and sharing objects that conveyed sentiments about the deceased, whether human or animal, as well as the identity of mourners. Death is about loss, and many of the mourning practices that women have traditionally and are currently engaged in are about dealing with private grief and public loss as well as working to mitigate the more general anxiety that death engenders about the impermanence of life.

Автор: Ivanova
Название: The Black Sea and the Early Civilizations of Europe, the Near East and Asia
ISBN: 1107032199 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107032194
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Presents the first comprehensive overview of the Black Sea region in the prehistoric period. This book cuts across disciplines and combines sources published in Eastern European languages with Western scholarly literature to give the Black Sea its rightful place in contemporary archaeological discourse.

Автор: Lewis Reina
Название: Modest Fashion
ISBN: 1780763832 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780763835
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Modest dressing, both secular and religious, is a growing trend across the world. This book examines the growing number of women who, for reasons of religion, faith or personal preference, decide to cover their bodies and dress in a way that satisfies their spiritual and stylistic requirements.

Автор: Lawrence Dianne
Название: Genteel Women: Empire and Domestic Material Culture, 1840-1910
ISBN: 0719097363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719097362
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: This book examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food. -- .

Автор: Kennedy, Melanie
Название: Tweenhood
ISBN: 1780768427 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780768427
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: A contemporary examination of how the tween is constructed in popular culture.

Автор: Rosie Dias, Kate Smith
Название: British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940
ISBN: 1501332155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501332159
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Correspondence, travel writing, diary writing, painting, scrapbooking, curating, collecting and house interiors allowed British women scope to express their responses to imperial sites and experiences in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Taking these productions as its archive, British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1775-1930 includes a collection of essays from different disciplines that consider the role of British women’s cultural practices and productions in conceptualising empire. While such productions have started to receive greater scholarly attention, this volume uses a more self-conscious lens of gender to question whether female cultural work demonstrates that colonial women engaged with the spaces and places of empire in distinctive ways. By working across disciplines, centuries and different colonial geographies, the volume makes an exciting and important contribution to the field by demonstrating the diverse ways in which European women shaped constructions of empire in the modern period.

Автор: Cheryl Sim
Название: Wearing the Cheongsam: Dress and Culture in a Chinese Diaspora
ISBN: 1788310810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788310819
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Associations between the cheongsam dress and Chinese cultural identity are well known but what are the meanings of the cheongsam for members of the Chinese diaspora? In a study grounded in first-hand accounts of wearing, Cheryl Sim explores the practices and experiences of women in Canada, a major Chinese diaspora, and carries out the first in-depth study of the cheongsam from this critical point of view. Questions explored over the course of 20 interviews, as well as during personal reflections on the author's own experiences of wearing, include: is there a desire to re-claim or appropriate the cheongsam? Does this desire risk perpetuating stereotypes of Asian women? Does it undermine one’s identification with one's host country? Can erased heritage(s) be accessed through dress? And how does wearing the cheongsam interact with the male gaze? Revealing feelings of repulsion and attraction, Sim combines personal stories with an authoritative use of theoretical frameworks such as feminism, post-colonialism and autoethnography. Covering issues such as heritage, ethnic identity, authenticity, nationalism, patriarchy and assimilation, Sim demonstrates that the meanings of the cheongsam are multifarious. Readable but with strong academic underpinnings, this book is the entry point into discussions of Chinese dress and diaspora.

Автор: Richardson, Catherine
Название: Shakespeare and Material Culture
ISBN: 019956227X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199562275
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: What is the significance of Shylock`s ring in The Merchant of Venice? How does Shakespeare create Gertrude`s closet in Hamlet? Why does Ariel prepare a banquet in The Tempest? In order to answer these questions, Shakespeare and Material Culture explores performance from the perspective of the material conditions of staging.

Автор: Jon P. Mitchell, Michael Bull
Название: Ritual, Performance and the Senses
ISBN: 1350001511 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350001510
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Описание: Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations - ideas, beliefs, values - to be shared among participants.

Автор: Wu
Название: Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China
ISBN: 1107134021 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107134027
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This comprehensive study of a mysterious state in ancient China offers fresh new perspectives for interpreting the history, archaeology, and art of China`s late Bronze Age. The careful scrutiny of the splendid bronze artefacts and their inscriptions reveal fascinating messages related to power and identity.

Автор: Horrocks Chris
Название: Cultures of Colour
ISBN: 0857454641 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857454645
Издательство: Berghahn
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Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines. Colour exists as a cultural as well as psycho-physical phenomenon and acquires a multitude of meanings within differing historical and cultural contexts. The contributors examine how colour becomes imbued with specific symbolic and material meanings that tint our constructions of race, gender, ideal bodies, the relationship of the self to others and of the self to technology and the built environment. By highlighting the relationship of colour across media and material culture, this volume reveals the complex interplay of cultural connotations, discursive practices and socio-psychological dynamics of colour in an international context.