Material Identities examines the way that individuals use material objects as tools for projecting aspects of their identities.
Considers the way identity is fashioned, launched, used, and admired in the material world.
Contributors intervene from the disciplines of art history, anthropology, design and material culture.
Considers contrasting media - painting, print, sculpture, dress, coinage, architecture, furniture, luxury items, and interior design.
Explores the complexity of identity through the intersection notions of gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, and class.
Reaffirms the central role of public identities and their impact on social life.
About the Author
Joanna Sofaer is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. She is the author of The Body as Material Culture: A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology (2006), editor of Children and Material Culture (2000) and co-editor, with Dana Arnold, of Biographies and Space (2007).
Features
Considers the way identity is fashioned, launched, used, and admired in the material world.
Contributors intervene from the disciplines of art history, anthropology, design and material culture.
Considers contrasting media - painting, print, sculpture, dress, coinage, architecture, furniture, luxury items, and interior design.
Explores the complexity of identity through the intersection notions of gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality, and class.
Reaffirms the central role of public identities and their impact on social life.