Body Decoration
Body Decoration

Author: Karl Gröning

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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This unrivalled collection of striking photographs traces more than ten thousand years of cultural history - from the body painting of stone-age peoples to the self-inflicted piercing of punks and the enduring image of the carnival clown in modern industrial society - illustrating an art form that is finding new relevance in the world of today. To set the plates in context, a distinguished team of art historians, ethnologists and archaeologists has provided enlightening commentaries which document the development of an extraordinarily broad spectrum of body painting, tattooing and scarring techniques.

Extreme Deviance
Extreme Deviance

Author: Erich Goode

Publisher: Pine Forge Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1412937221

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This title takes a look at normative violations that earn the violators a deviant identity in the eyes of the members of mainstream society.

The Face of Fashion
The Face of Fashion

Author: Jennifer Craik

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1134940564

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology

Author: Tim Ingold

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 1172

ISBN-13: 9780415286046

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New in paperback, this Companion provides a unique survey of contemporary thinking in biological, social and cultural anthropology. A prestigious editor leads an international team of acknowledged experts in each field.

Drawing with Great Needles
Drawing with Great Needles

Author: Aaron Deter-Wolf

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2013-11-15

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0292749120

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For thousands of years, Native Americans used the physical act and visual language of tattooing to construct and reinforce the identity of individuals and their place within society and the cosmos. This book offers an examination into the antiquity, meaning, and significance of Native American tattooing in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains.--Publisher description.

Man Bac
Man Bac

Author: Marc F. Oxenham

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1921862238

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The site of Man Bac in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, one of the most meticulously excavated and carefully analysed of Southeast Asian archaeological sites in the past few years, is emerging as a key site in the region. This book carefully analyses the human and animal remains and puts them into context. The authors describe in detail the health status, the unusual demographic profile and the interestingly divergent affinities of the cemetery population, and discuss their meaning, particularly in association with evidence for the use of marine and terrestrial animal resources; they argue convincingly that the site documents a time when the face of the region's population was undergoing a fundamental shift, associated with a changing economic subsistence base. Physical anthropologists and archaeologists have argued for years over the timeline, the manner and the very nature of Southeast Asian population history, and this book is essential reading in this debate. Two supporting appendices describe the individual remains in detail.

Embodiment and Education
Embodiment and Education

Author: Marjorie O'Loughlin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-03-10

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781402045875

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This book brings together some of the most important philosophical works on the body. These are then subjected to a critical analysis of what bodies 'do' and 'have done to them' in contemporary social life and particularly in education. The author acknowledges the importance of discursive bodies while focusing attention on the active, experiencing body and its anchoring in the 'creatural'. Thinking in these terms, the author argues, can better situate human beings in their environment, thus emphasizing a kind of 'ecological notion of subjectivity’, in which place-based existence is understood anew.

Aratjara
Aratjara

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-07-04

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9004484760

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ARATJARA is the first collection of essays on Australian Aboriginal culture published and edited from Germany. A group of internationally renowned scholars and specialists in their fields have contributed original essays on political and cultural aspects of Aboriginal life today. These various essays treat the struggle of Aboriginal peoples for land rights, their music, and their achievements in theatre, in literature and in the creation of Aboriginal literary discourses, as well as Aboriginal film and television productions and the representation of Australia's indigenous peoples in the white media. Among Aboriginal writers who have contributed to ARATJARA are the politician Neville T. Bonner, the dramatist Bob Maza, the story-teller David Mowaljarlai and the poet Lionel Fogarty, who has been called the most authentic Aboriginal voice among writers using English as their medium of creative expression. The volume is dedicated to Oodgeroo (formerly Kath Walker, 1920-1993), one of the foremost Aboriginal political and cultural personalities, and also contains a number of poems by Lionel Fogarty.

Clothing and Fashion [4 volumes]
Clothing and Fashion [4 volumes]

Author: José Blanco F.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-11-23

Total Pages: 2438

ISBN-13:

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This unique four-volume encyclopedia examines the historical significance of fashion trends, revealing the social and cultural connections of clothing from the precolonial times to the present day. This sweeping overview of fashion and apparel covers several centuries of American history as seen through the lens of the clothes we wear—from the Native American moccasin to Manolo Blahnik's contribution to stiletto heels. Through four detailed volumes, this work delves into what people wore in various periods in our country's past and why—from hand-crafted family garments in the 1600s, to the rough clothing of slaves, to the sophisticated textile designs of the 21st century. More than 100 fashion experts and clothing historians pay tribute to the most notable garments, accessories, and people comprising design and fashion. The four volumes contain more than 800 alphabetical entries, with each volume representing a different era. Content includes fascinating information such as that beginning in 1619 through 1654, every man in Virginia was required to plant a number of mulberry trees to support the silk industry in England; what is known about the clothing of enslaved African Americans; and that there were regulations placed on clothing design during World War II. The set also includes color inserts that better communicate the visual impact of clothing and fashion across eras.