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Dressing the Part: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas

Dressing the Part: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas


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Costume can reveal a wealth of information about an individual’s identity within society. Dressing the Part looks at the ways individuals in the ancient Americas used clothing, hairstyle, and personal ornaments to express status and power, gender identity, and group affiliations, even from the grave. While most gender studies of Pre-Columbian societies focus on women, these essays also foreground men and persons of multiple or ambiguous gender. Dressing the Part examines how individual identity played a role in larger schemes of social relationship in the ancient Americas. Employing a variety of theories and methodologies from art history, anthropology, ethnography, semiotics, and material science, contributors to this volume explore not only how power is gendered or related to gender but also how the dynamics between power and gender are negotiated through costume.

About the Author :
Sarahh E. M. Scher is a visiting lecturer in art history at Salem State University. Billie J. A. Follensbee is professor of art history and museum studies program coordinator at Missouri State University.

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"Focuses on how costume across precontact North, Central, and South America conveyed information about gender, power, and the relationship between the two. . . . A welcome addition."--Choice "Pursuing a more holistic understanding of gender in different cultures of the Americas, the authors of the volume explore how complex gender relationships and identities are both manifested in social relations and constituted by them. The studies also demonstrate the fluidity of gender and its manifestations, revealing how gender and associated costumes relate to or are appropriated by relationships of power."--Latin American Research Review "Proves that painstaking looking, combined with careful comparison and contrasting of art forms . . . can indeed shed light on the interrelationships of gender, power, and change in undocumented and previously misunderstood pasts." --Latin American Antiquity "Drawing from history, anthropology, ethnography, and material culture studies, the authors in the volume explore how gendered identities are part of the greater fabric of social relations, political power, and religious authority."--Ethnohistory "This volume brings new insight through its detailed analyses of case studies that span regions throughout the Americas."--Americas "Essential reading that not only brings fresh insights and highlights dynamism, fluidity, and contentious in the relationships between gender and power in ancient American societies, but also serves as a solid basis for further investigation."--caa.reviews


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780813062211
  • Publisher: University Press of Florida
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Florida
  • Height: 233 mm
  • No of Pages: 448
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 633 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0813062217
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas
  • Width: 155 mm


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