TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davies,Stephen
ED  - Askews & Holts
TI  - Adornment: what self-decoration tells us about who we are 
SN  - 9781350121003 (e-book)
AV  - GT2050 .A3 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Dress accessories
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Body marking
KW  - Beauty and Fashion
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Cultural studies: customs & traditions
KW  - thema
KW  - Philosophy: aesthetics
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form ISBN 9781350120983; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in human prehistory, ancient civilizations, hunter-foragers, and present-day industrial societies to tell a captivating story of hair, skin, and make-up practices across times and cultures; Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in human prehistory, ancient civilizations, hunter-foragers, and present-day industrial societies to tell a captivating story of hair, skin, and make-up practices across times and cultures. From the decline of the hat, the function of jewelry and popularity of tattooing to the wealth of grave goods found in the Upper Paleolithic burials and body painting of the Nuba, we see that there is no one who does not adorn themselves, their possessions, or their environment. But what messages do these adornments send? Drawing on aesthetics, evolutionary history, archaeology, ethology, anthropology, psychology, cultural history, and gender studies, Stephen Davies brings together African, Australian and North and South American indigenous cultures and unites them around the theme of adornment. He shows us that adorning is one of the few social behaviors that is close to being genuinely universal, more typical and extensive than the high-minded activities we prefer to think of as marking our species - religion, morality, and art. Each chapter shows how modes of decoration send vitally important signals about what we care about, our affiliations and backgrounds, our social status and values. In short, by using the theme of bodily adornment to unify a very diverse set of human practices, this book tells us about who we are
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