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Record Nr.

UNINA9910856972803321

Autore

Gouy Audrey

Titolo

Textiles in Motion : Dress for Dance in the Ancient World

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Havertown : , : Oxbow Books, Limited, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9798888570937

9781789257991

1789257999

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 pages)

Disciplina

677.00901

Soggetti

Design / Textile & Costume

Social Science / Archaeology

History / Ancient

Social sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.



Egyptologist dancers - re-enacting 'ancient Egyptian' dances at the beginning of the 20th century.

Sommario/riassunto

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.