Abstract
Very well-preserved clothing and textiles often have been discovered in East Asian mummy studies. Despite their significant academic value, however, fullfledged scientific studies on mummy clothing began just recently in South Korea. Thanks to the pioneering work of dress historians, clothing collected from Joseon period graves has grown into a large historical repository at institutions such as museums. Utilizing the mummy clothing collected so far, scholars have traced historical changes in clothing fashions on the Korean peninsula. Every finding obtained by mummy clothing research becomes an invaluable resource for scholarly reconstruction of pre-modern dress and textiles. Given the recent technological development in the field, long-asked questions about actual clothing history could finally be answered, thus bringing about a great deal of progress in knowledge. In this light, the academic value of mummy clothing has come to be highly re-appreciated among academics and the public at large in South Korea.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Handbook of Mummy Studies |
Subtitle of host publication | New Frontiers in Scientific and Cultural Perspectives |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 1153-1170 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789811533549 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789811533532 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 18 Nov 2021 |
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Keywords
- Clothing
- East asia
- Joseon period
- Korea
- Mummy
- Textile