Dressing the Part: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas

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Sarahh Scher Billie J. A. Follensbee

Dressing the Part

Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas

Sarahh Scher, Billie J. A. Follensbee

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University Press of Florida
16 April 2024

Art of indigenous peoples; History of fashion; Social & cultural history; Archaeology; Social & cultural anthropology

From Olmec costume switching to Peruvian bundle burials we see which types of power were gendered, which symbols or motifs were power filled, and how these symbols were borne by the living and the dead. This collection showcases a mature gendered archaeology.""--Cheryl Claassen, author of Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America: An Interpretive Guide

Costume can reveal a wealth of information about an individual's identity within society. Dressing the Part looks at the ways individuals in the ancient Americas used clothing, hairstyle, and personal ornaments to express status and power, gender identity, and group affiliations, even from the grave.

While most gender studies of pre-Columbian societies focus on women, these essays also foreground men and persons of multiple or ambiguous gender, exploring how these various identities are part of the greater fabric of social relations, political power, and religious authority. The contributors to this volume discuss how costume elements represented empowered identities, how different costumes expressed gender and power, and how elite gendered costume elements may have been appropriated by people of other genders as symbols of power.

Dressing the Part examines how individual identity played a role in larger schemes of social relationship in the ancient Americas. Employing a variety of theories and methodologies from art history, anthropology, ethnography, semiotics, and material science, this volume considers not only how authority is gendered or related to gender but also how the dynamics between power and gender are negotiated through costume.

Contributors: Katie McElfresh Buford; Billie J. A. Follensbee; Alice Beck Kehoe; Melissa K. Logan; Matthew G. Looper; Ann H. Peters; Kim N. Richter; Sarahh E. M. Scher; Elsa L. Tomasto-Cagigao; Laura M. Wingfield; Karon Winzenz; Cherra Wyllie

Edited by: Sarahh Scher, Billie J. A. Follensbee
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780813080543
ISBN 10: 0813080541
Pages: 520
Publication Date: 16 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sarahh E. M. Scher is a visiting lecturer in art history at Salem State University. Billie J. A. Follensbee is professor of art history and museum studies program coordinator at Missouri State University.

Reviews for Dressing the Part: Power, Dress, Gender, and Representation in the Pre-Columbian Americas

"This volume brings new insight through its detailed analyses of case studies that span regions throughout the Americas.""—Americas ""Essential reading that not only brings fresh insights and highlights dynamism, fluidity, and contentious in the relationships between gender and power in ancient American societies, but also serves as a solid basis for further investigation.""—caa.reviews"