Book
Mask
2024
Abstract
"Mask will explore the long history of masking, asking who and what we seek to protect through different forms of masks"--
"From the theater mask and masquerade to the masked criminal and the rise of facial recognition software, masks have long performed as an instrument for the protection and concealment of identity. Even as they conceal and protect, masks - as faces - are an extension of the self. At the same time, they are a part of material culture: what are masks made of? What traces do they leave behind? Acknowledging that that mask-wearing has become increasingly weaponized and politicized, Sharrona Pearl looks at the politics of the mask, exploring how identity itself is read on this object." --
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Details
- Title
- Mask
- Creators
- Sharrona Pearl - Drexel University, Health Administration
- Series
- Object Lessons Series
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic & Professional; New York
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Number of pages
- 137 pages
- Resource Type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Africana Studies; Health Administration
- Other Identifier
- 9798765102411; 9798765102428; 991021873514204721