Title: Dressing the Part : Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-columbian Americas
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Publication Date: 2024
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0813080541
ISBN 13: 9780813080543
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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How costume expressed individual identity and social relationships in the ancient Americas

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, exploring how these various identities are part of the greater fabric of social relations, political power, and religious authority. The contributors to this volume discuss how costume elements represented empowered identities, how different costumes expressed gender and power, and how elite gendered costume elements may have been appropriated by people of other genders as symbols of power.

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, this volume considers not only how authority is gendered or related to gender but also how the dynamics between power and gender are negotiated through costume.

About the Authors

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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