Material Identities

by Sofaer, Joanna

• ISBN13: 9781405132343
• ISBN10: 1405132345
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Material Identities examines the way that individuals use material objects as tools for projecting aspects of their identities. Considers the way identity is fashioned, launched, used, and admired in the material world. Contributors intervene from the disciplines of art history, anthropology, design and material culture. Considers contrasting media - painting, print, sculpture, dress, coinage, architecture, furniture, luxury items, and interior design. Explores the complexity of identity through the intersection notions of gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, and class. Reaffirms the central role of public identities and their impact on social life.

Author Biography

Joanna Sofaer is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. She is the author of The Body as Material Culture: A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology (2006), editor of Children and Material Culture (2000) and co-editor, with Dana Arnold, of Biographies and Space (2007).

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xii
Introduction: Materiality and Identity	p. 1
Projecting Identities	p. 11
Mai/Omai in London and the South Pacific: Performativity, Cultural Entanglement, and Indigenous Appropriation	p. 13
Projecting Identities in the Greek Symposion	p. 31
Material and Social Transformations	p. 53
Bernini Struts	p. 55
Architectural Style and Identity in Egypt	p. 67
Identifying the Body: Representing Self. Art, Ornamentation and the Body in Later Prehistoric Europe	p. 82
Politics and Identity	p. 99
Aristocratic Identity: Regency Furniture and the Egyptian Revival Style	p. 101
Architecture, Power, and Politics: The Forum-Basilica in Roman Britain	p. 127
Bibliography	p. 152
Index	p. 163
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