ISBN:
9781350121003
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (297 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Davies, Stephen Adornment : What Self-Decoration Tells Us about Who We Are
DDC:
391.4409
Keywords:
Dress accessories-History
;
Body marking-History
;
Dress accessories-Social aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Sungir Children -- The Ubiquity of Decoration -- The Sungir Burials -- Decorations as Social Signalers -- Asceticism -- Decoration and the Group's Cosmology -- 2 What Adornment Is -- Making Special by Aesthetic Enhancement -- The Aesthetic Intention -- Are Animals Decorators? -- The Symbolic Power of Adornment -- Decorative materials -- Decoration and Practical Function -- Artworks and Adornments -- Beads as a Brief Case Study -- 3 Bodily Adornment Practices -- Bodies versus Artifacts -- Surgical Interventions and Other Forms of Bodily Alteration -- Teeth as a Site for Decoration -- Hairstyling -- Skin, Nails, and Eyes -- Regular Bodily Maintenance -- 4 Aesthetics and Adornment in Prehistory -- The Issue of Behavioral Modernity -- Early Religion and Art -- Decoration in Prehistory -- When did the Aesthetic Sense Develop? -- Neanderthal Aesthetics -- Denisovans -- One Species or Many? -- 5 Differences between Men and Women -- Adornment and Sex -- Evolutionary Psychology on Mate Selection -- Cultural Variants on Female Beauty -- The Roles of the Sexes in Reproduction -- Human Beauty and Sex-Based Adornment Practices -- Women's Use of Beautifying Procedures -- The Upshot for Adornment -- 6 Body Painting and Makeup -- Body Painting -- Makeup -- Hostility to Makeup -- History of Cosmetics and Perfume Use -- Scents -- 7 Scarification and Tattoos -- The Beauty of Scarification and Tattooing -- Scarification -- Tattooing has Similar Functions to Scarification -- History of Tattooing -- Men's Tattoos and Facial Tattoos -- Negative Views of Tattoos -- Functions of Permanent Body Marking -- 8 Piercings, Plugs, and Jewelry -- Body Piercing -- Ear Treatments -- Lip Plates -- Neck Chokers, Bound Feet, and More -- Jewelry.
Abstract:
Jewelry Materials -- Jewelry in History -- Beads -- 9 Clothing -- Clothes in History -- Clothing Functions -- Chinese Clothes -- Clothing as Decoration -- Adorned Clothes -- Headwear: A Case Study -- 10 Bali-Sungir Writ Large -- A Brief History and Bali's Gods -- Animism and Cosmology -- Temples and Temple Off erings -- Other Occasions for Off erings -- Balinese Aesthetics and Art -- Competition and Aesthetics -- Testing the Theory of Adornment Against the Balinese Case -- 11 Conclusion -- Human Adornment -- We Are All Balinese -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Plates.
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