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Autore |
Gouy Audrey |
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Titolo |
Textiles in Motion : Dress for Dance in the Ancient World |
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Havertown : , : Oxbow Books, Limited, , 2023 |
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©2023 |
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ISBN |
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9798888570937 |
9781789257991 |
1789257999 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (344 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Design / Textile & Costume |
Social Science / Archaeology |
History / Ancient |
Social sciences |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Scientific committee -- List of contributors -- Introduction (Audrey Gouy) -- Part 1: Practicalities -- 1. Practical perspectives on dance and clothing -- Part 2: Movement and design -- 2. Dancing in flames - fabulous designs from the desert sands. Reconstructing the east Central Asian skirt's construction secret -- 3. The whirling dance of Baukis: reinterpreting our sources -- 4. Dance and metatheatre in Menander's Theophoroumene -- Part 3: Embodiment and communication -- 5. The unhellenic attire of choruses as image of the 'other' in ancient Greek tragedy -- 6. The dress of the dancing lares -- 7. Dance and clothing in ancient Egypt ‒ the earliest evidence -- Part 4: Cognition and sensory experience -- 8. Soft cloth and sounding jewellery - sound fields of rich women in Eastern Hallstatt culture -- 9. Flowing white dresses for dancing initiates in the Mysteries of Eleusis -- 10. Fashioning sensescapes through ancient Egyptian dance -- Part 5: Images and metaphors -- 11. Dancing around the goddess' dress -- 12. 'Wearing' tattoos in ancient Egypt. Evidence from Middle Kingdom mummies and feminine figurines -- Part 6: Modern reception -- 13. |
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Egyptologist dancers - re-enacting 'ancient Egyptian' dances at the beginning of the 20th century. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume explores the significance, role, and meaning of textiles and dress in dance, integrating anthropological and sociological dimension into historical analysis of textiles in the ancient world. |
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