An Eight Thousand Year Old History of Clothing and Textile of Persian Ethnicities
An Eight Thousand Year Old History of Clothing and Textiles of Persian Ethnicities
Mehrasa Gheybi
665 Pages
Among ancient nations of the world, there is no nation like the Persian nation when it comes to cultural and historical heritage. Therefore, recognition of the history of clothing and textiles as a representative of this rich cultural and historical background must be held significantly, since it depicts developments and ethnic heterogeneity of a lively society. Furthermore, recognition of such a history will facilitate researchers with a diachronic understanding of mankind evolution from the cave age towards sophisticated and intelligent civilizations so that the changes and distinctive designations in his/her clothing codes can be put in the overall evolutionary path of mankind. Therefore, archeology and anthropology as two academic fields should be revitalized fundamentally so that such a history can be covered.
The present book acquires a new perspective towards dress codes and the history of Persian textiles. It embarks on historical, social, aesthetic and political readings of the eight thousand year old history of clothing and textiles of Persian ethnicities.
Distinctive characteristics of dress codes of each historical era, alongside with available images from traditional cloths and dress codes, are represented, depicting that each era works as a mirror for ideological imperatives of the dominant class when it comes to designation of public dress codes. The ultimate section of the book constitutes of definition of key terminologies and a Persian and English bibliography.
The book is saturated by interesting images in color and back and white that give it a unique aesthetic dimension. The sections, written in English is compiled and edited by Dr. Manuchehr Gheybi. An Eight Thousand Year Old History of Clothing and Textiles of Persian Ethnicities should be considered a canonical work in the study of dress codes and textiles industry in the Persian archeological and anthropological archives.
