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Wrapping and Unwrapping Material Culture: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives by Susanna Harris

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This innovative volume challenges contemporary views on material culture by exploring the relationship between wrapping materials and practices and the objects, bodies, and places that define them. Using examples as diverse as baby swaddling, Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, lace underwear, textile clothing, and contemporary African silk, the dozen archaeologist and anthropologist contributors show how acts of wrapping and unwrapping are embedded in beliefs and thoughts of a particular time and place. Employing methods of artifact analysis, microscopy, and participant observation, the contributors provide a new lens on material culture and its relationship to cultural meaning.

About the Author
Susanna Harris is British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. She is researching the relationship between textiles and animal skins in prehistoric Europe and the role of cloth-type materials as cloth cultures. Laurence Douny is a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Department of Anthropology at University College London. She has been working over the past 10 years in the Dogon region of West Africa on earth works. She is now conducting research on silk embroidery and woven textiles throughout West Africa.


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ISBN 9781611328875
Author Susanna Harris
Format Hardback
Page Count 245
Imprint Left Coast Press Inc
Publisher Left Coast Press Inc
Weight(grams) 521g

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