Wearing Culture: Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America 9781607322825, 9781607322818

Wearing the Cheongsam: Dress and Culture in a Chinese Diaspora 9781788310819, 9781350109889, 9781350109865

Associations between the cheongsam dress and Chinese cultural identity are well known but what are the meanings of the c

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Literacy and Written Culture in Early Modern Central Europe 9789633865224

The key aspect of this volume is to place Hungary on the map of European literacy rates over the whole period between th

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Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in Early Modern Mesoamerica 9781477313886

Chocolate and sugar, alcohol and tobacco, peyote and hallucinogenic mushrooms—these seductive substances have been a nex

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Palaces and Courtly Culture in Ancient Mesoamerica 9781784910518, 1784910511

This volume collects eight recent and innovative studies spanning the breadth of Mesoamerica, from the Early Classic met

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History and Society in Central America 9781477306932

First published in Chile in 1969 as Interpretación del desarrollo social centroamericano, this classic is now available

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Early Ancón and Early Supe Culture: Chavín Horizon Sites of the Central Peruvian Coast 9780231881128

A study of Early Ancon and Early Supe culture based on the findings of Project 3 of the Institute of Andean Research dur

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Literacy and written culture in early modern central Europe 9789639116856, 9789639241305

This unequalled volume's key value is to place Hungary on the map of European literacy rates over the whole period

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Risk Culture: Performance & Danger in Early America

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Fashion Foundations: Early Writings on Fashion and Dress 9780857854070, 9781859736142

Although it can be difficult to think of fashion in anything other than a contemporary context, as a concept it is hardl

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Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America 9780812205930

In this wide-ranging study of the intersections between visual and literary culture, Christopher J. Lukasik demonstrates

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