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By Heather Orr,Matthew Looper

Wearing Culture connects students of divergent geographical components and educational fields—from archaeologists and anthropologists to paintings historians—to exhibit the importance of articles of regalia and of dressing and ornamenting humans and items one of the Formative interval cultures of historic Mesoamerica and critical America.

Documenting the flowery practices of gown, adornment, and physique amendment in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Oaxaca, the Soconusco area of southern Mesoamerica, the Gulf Coast Olmec sector (Olman), and the Maya lowlands, this publication demonstrates that adornment used to be used as a device for speaking prestige, social relationships, energy, gender, sexuality, habit, and political, ritual, and non secular identities. regardless of enormous formal and technological edition in garments and ornamentation, the early indigenous cultures of those areas shared quite a few practices, attitudes, and aesthetic pursuits. participants deal with technological improvement, production fabrics and strategies, nonfabric ornamentation, symbolic dimensions, representational options, and garments as proof of interregional sociopolitical exchange.

Focusing on a massive interval of cultural and inventive improvement during the lens of costuming and adornment, Wearing Culture might be of curiosity to students of pre-Hispanic and pre-Columbian studies.

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