Material Identities

Joanna Sofaer is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. She is the author of The Body as Material Culture: A Theoretical Osteoarchaeology (2006), editor of Children and Material Culture (2000) and co-editor, with Dana Arnold, of Biographies and Space (2007).

• Series Editor’s Preface. List of Illustrations.Notes on Contributors.Acknowledgments.Introduction: Materiality and Identity (Joanna Sofaer).PART I: PROJECTING IDENTITIES.1. Mai/Omai in London and the South Pacific: Perfomativity, Cultural Entanglement, and Indigenous Appropriation (Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones).2. Projecting Identities in the Greek Symposion (Robin Osborne).PART II: MATERIAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS.3. Bernini Struts (Michael Cole).4. Architectural Style and Identity in Egypt (Doris Behrens-Abouseif).5. Identifying the Body: Representing Self. Art, Ornamentation and the Body In Later Prehistoric Europe (Fay Stevens).PART III: POLITICS AND IDENTITY.6. Aristocratic Identity: Regency Furniture and the Egyptian Revival Style (Abigail Harrison-Moore).7. Architecture, Power, and Politics: The Forum-Basilica in Roman Britain (Louise Revell).Bibliography.Index.