Sumptuary Laws
Counterfeit coral, regulated umbrellas & broken blades
I'm still working on the article about social signaling via appearance that I mentioned a couple weeks back in the Dentition issue of this newsletter. All the pop articles focus on Elizabethan sumptuary laws, but it's a global phenomenon with interesting implications for society and class.
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Nobles in pre-colonial Benin (in West Africa) were req…
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