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“The True and Exact Dresses and Fashion” Archaeological Clothing Remains and their Social Contexts in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Hungary

£29.00
Author:
Dóra Mérai
Publication Year:
2010
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781407305554
Paperback:
99pp, Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, figures, drawings and photographs in colour and black and white
Sub-series name:
Archaeolingua Central European Series
ISBN 10:
1407305557
BAR number:
S2078
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Description

BOOK DESCRIPTION
The author's main aim in this study is to look at how and within what framework the elements of costume from Ottoman period burials in Hungary have been treated by previous research, and to suggest some new directions of interpretation. The information on the ethnic and geographical origins of the population interred in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cemeteries in Hungary, as provided by historical sources, has determined the questions formulated within previous archaeological scholarship: the analysis of burial customs and finds, mostly remains of clothing, has focused on an ethnic interpretation. This study has two main aims. First, to look for factors other than ethnicity which could contribute to the formation of clothing and of the way it appears in the archaeological record, taking a closer look at the archaeological and various aspects of the social and cultural context of certain objects. Second, to see how historical archaeology can modify our understanding of clothing in the past: the way it was treated by contemporary peoples, and the social and cultural structures that produced it.