Cultures of colour : visual, material, textual /

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Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines. Colour exists as a cultural as...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
مؤلفون آخرون: Horrocks, Chris
التنسيق: Printed Book
اللغة:English
منشور في: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
الطبعة:1st ed.
الموضوعات:
Human skin color.
Color > Psychological aspects.
Color > Cross-cultural studies.
Visual anthropology.
Material culture.
الوصف
الملخص:Colour permeates contemporary visual and material culture and affects our senses beyond the superficial encounter by infiltrating our perceptions and memories and becoming deeply rooted in thought processes that categorise and divide along culturally constructed lines. Colour exists as a cultural as well as psycho-physical phenomenon and acquires a multitude of meanings within differing historical and cultural contexts. The contributors examine how colour becomes imbued with specific symbolic and material meanings that tint our constructions of race, gender, ideal bodies, the relationship of t.
وصف مادي:vii, 188 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ردمك:9780857454645 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780857454652 (ebook)

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