Adorned Body

Nicholas Carter is an assistant professor of anthropology at Texas State University.Stephen D. Houston is the Dupee Family Professor of Social Sciences at Brown University and the author of many books, including The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence, which won a PROSE Award in 2014.Franco D. Rossi is the Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History of Art at the Johns Hopkins University. His research uses archaeological approaches to explore the relationship among art, education systems, and statecraft in ancient Mesoamerica.

• 1. The Adorned Body (Stephen Houston, Nicholas Carter, and Franco Rossi)2. The Clothed Body (Nicholas Carter, Alyce de Carteret, and Katharine Lukach)3. The Painted Body (Katharine Lukach and Jeffrey Dobereiner)4. The Capped Body (Nicholas Carter and Alyce de Carteret)5. The Diademed Body (Franco Rossi, Katharine Lukach, and Jeffrey Dobereiner)6. The Bejeweled Body (Nicholas Carter)7. The Collared Body (Mallory Matsumoto and Cara Tremain)8. The Girded Body (Alyce de Carteret and Jeffrey Dobereiner)9. The Shod Body (Franco Rossi and Alyce de Carteret)10. The Varied Body (Cara Tremain)11. The Moving Body (Mallory Matsumoto)Coda (Stephen Houston, Franco Rossi, and Nicholas Carter)ReferencesIndex

The contributors [to The Adorned Body]...quite compellingly explore the objectives and reception of specific symbolism, especially in public ceremonies and processions. The authors draw on a rich corpus of basic data, including hundreds of richly painted ceramics and abundant frescoes painted on white plastered walls in temples, palaces, and other venues...The chapters are well illustrated, and fortunately there is a section of color illustrations in the center of the book...Recommended. (CHOICE) A highly welcomed volume…[The Adorned Body] addresses the yet under-investigated topic of ancient Maya dress conception and features...the eleven chapters written by different authors provide ample documentation of iconography, epigraphy, and materiality concerning Maya output of dresses and adorned bodies.(Anthropos) The Adorned Body provides a complete and exhaustive survey on dress and fashion among the ancient Maya...This book represents a brief and clear but comprehensive review on ancient Maya clothing. It will be of interest as a first approach to this subject or as a useful support for scholars who need to widen or develop their knowledge on the topic, thanks to the richness of references given about others' works...The book also provides a whole perception of the human body in Mesoamerican civilization. (Journal of Dress History)