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Book Synopsis The Adorned Body by : Nicholas Carter
Download or read book The Adorned Body written by Nicholas Carter and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adorned Body is the first truly comprehensive book on what the ancient Maya wore, a systematic survey of dress and ornaments, from head to toe and everything in between.
Book Synopsis The Adorned Body by : Nicholas Carter
Download or read book The Adorned Body written by Nicholas Carter and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we dress our bodies—through clothing, footwear, headgear, jewelry, haircuts, and more—is key to the expression of status and identity. This idea was as true for ancient Maya civilization as it is today, yet few studies have centered on what ancient Maya peoples wore and why. In The Adorned Body, Nicholas Carter, Stephen Houston, and Franco Rossi bring together contributions from a wide range of scholars, leading to the first in-depth study of Maya dress in pre-Columbian times. Incorporating artistic, hieroglyphic, and archaeological sources, this book explores the clothing and ornaments of ancient Maya peoples, systematically examining who wore what, deducing the varied purposes and meanings of dress items and larger ensembles, and determining the methods and materials with which such items were created. Each essay investigates a category of dress—including headgear, pendants and necklaces, body painting, footwear, and facial ornaments—and considers the variations within each of these categories, as well as popular styles and trends through time. The final chapters reveal broader views and comparisons about costume ensembles and their social roles. Shedding new light on the art and archaeology of the ancient Americas, The Adorned Body offers a thorough map of Maya dress that will be of interest to scholars and fashion enthusiasts alike.
Download or read book The Body Adorned written by Vidya Dehejia and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sensuous human form-elegant and eye-catching-is the dominant feature of premodern Indian art. From the powerful god Shiva, greatest of all yogis and most beautiful of all beings, to stone dancers twisting along temple walls, the body in Indian art is always richly adorned. Alankara (ornament) protects the body and makes it complete and attractive; to be unornamented is to invite misfortune. In The Body Adorned, Vidya Dehejia, who has dedicated her career to the study of Indian art, draws on the literature of court poets, the hymns of saints and acharyas, and verses from inscriptions to illuminate premodern India's unique treatment of the sculpted and painted form. She focuses on the coexistence of sacred and sensuous images within the common boundaries of Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu "sacred spaces," redefining terms like "sacred" and "secular" in relation to Indian architecture. She also considers the paradox of passionate poetry, in which saints praised the sheer bodily beauty of the divine form, and nonsacred Rajput painted manuscripts, which freely inserted gods into the earthly realm of the courts. By juxtaposing visual and literary sources, Dehejia demonstrates the harmony between the sacred and the profane in classical Indian culture. Her synthesis of art, literature, and cultural materials not only generates an all-inclusive picture of the period but also revolutionizes our understanding of the cultural ethos of premodern India.
Download or read book The Body Adorned written by Vidya Dehejia and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Body written by Angela Roskop Erisman and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clothed and adorned body has been at the forefront of Nili S. Fox's scholarship. In her hallmark approach, she draws on theoretical models from anthropology and archaeology, and locates the text within its native cultural environment in conversation with ancient Near Eastern literary and iconographic sources. This volume is a tribute to her, a collection of essays on dress and the body with original research by Fox's students. With the field of dress now garnering the attention of biblical and Ancient Near Eastern scholars alike, this book adds to the growing literature on the topic, demonstrating ways in which both dress and the body communicate cultural and religious beliefs and practices. The body's lived experience is the topic of section one, the body lived. The body and the social construction of identity is discussed in section two, the body cultured, while section three, the body adorned, analyzes the performative nature of dress in the biblical text.
Download or read book Adorned written by Gary Truslow and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archon Of Boston sends Adorned necromancer Anastasia and Samuel's Chamberlain Rachel to catacombs beneath France to recover a hidden grimoire. An implacable hidden adversary stands ready to stop them at any cost.
Book Synopsis Scalable Uncertainty Management by : Henri Prade
Download or read book Scalable Uncertainty Management written by Henri Prade and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, SUM 2007, held in Washington, DC, USA, in October 2007. The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers address artificial intelligence researchers, database researchers and practitioners.
Book Synopsis Pharmacopœia Londinensis; or, the London dispensatory, further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows now living of the said College, etc by : Nicholas Culpeper
Download or read book Pharmacopœia Londinensis; or, the London dispensatory, further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows now living of the said College, etc written by Nicholas Culpeper and published by . This book was released on 1695 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pharmacopœia Londinensis: or the London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said Colledg, etc. A translation, with additions, of the “Pharmacopoeia Londinensis” published by the Royal College of Physicians. With a portrait by : Nicholas Culpeper
Download or read book Pharmacopœia Londinensis: or the London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said Colledg, etc. A translation, with additions, of the “Pharmacopoeia Londinensis” published by the Royal College of Physicians. With a portrait written by Nicholas Culpeper and published by . This book was released on 1654 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muriel Spark written by David Herman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A substantial addition to Spark criticism, of which there has been surprisingly little published in recent years."--Aileen Christianson, University of Edinburgh --Book Jacket
Download or read book Adorned written by Anna Edmundson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhibition catalogue illustrating traditional jewellery, body ornaments and costume from Australia and the Pacific.
Book Synopsis Appearance and Identity by : L. Negrin
Download or read book Appearance and Identity written by L. Negrin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book casts a critical look at the dominant position that fashion has come to occupy in contemporary society. It addresses various aspects of fashion in postmodern culture including makeup, cosmetic surgery, tattoos, ornament in dress and the blurring of gender boundaries.
Book Synopsis Loving Stones by : David L. Haberman
Download or read book Loving Stones written by David L. Haberman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Loving Stones: Making the Impossible Possible in the Worship of Mount Govardhan is based on ethnographic and textual research with two major objectives. First, it is a study of the conceptions of and worshipful interactions with Mount Govardhan, a sacred mountain located in the Braj region of north-central India that has for centuries been considered an embodied form of Krishna. In this capacity it provides detailed information about the rich religious world associated with Mount Govardhan, much of which has not been available in previous scholarly literature. It is often said in that Mount Govardhan "makes the impossible possible" for devoted worshipers. This investigation includes examination of the perplexing paradox of an infinite god embodied in finite form, wherein each particular form is non-different from the unlimited. Second, it aims to address the challenge of interpreting something as radically different as the worship of a mountain and its stones for a culture in which this practice is quite alien. This challenge involves exploration of interpretive strategies that aspire to make the un-understandable understandable, and engages in theoretical considerations of incongruity, inconceivability, and like realms of the impossible. This aspect of the book includes critical consideration of the place and history of the pejorative concept of idolatry (and secondarily, its twin anthropomorphism) in the comparative study of religions. Accordingly, the second aim aspires to use the worship of Mount Govardhan as a site to explore ways in which scholars engaged in the difficult work of representing other cultures struggle to "make the impossible possible". ""--
Book Synopsis The Twelve Principal Upanishads by : Śaṅkarācārya
Download or read book The Twelve Principal Upanishads written by Śaṅkarācārya and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Outline of Knowledge: Sacred writings by : James Albert Richards
Download or read book The Outline of Knowledge: Sacred writings written by James Albert Richards and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Theosophical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pharmacopœia Londinensis; or, the London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows now living, of the said Colledge, etc by : Nicholas Culpeper
Download or read book Pharmacopœia Londinensis; or, the London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows now living, of the said Colledge, etc written by Nicholas Culpeper and published by . This book was released on 1675 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
