ISBN:
0253217830
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0253346282
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 264 p)
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ill
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Dirt, Undress, and Difference : Critical Perspectives on the Body's Surface
DDC:
391
Keywords:
Nudity Congresses Social aspects
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Clothing and dress Congresses Social aspects
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Human body Congresses Social aspects
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Hygiene Congresses Social aspects
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Bathing customs Congresses Social aspects
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Bathing customs ; Social aspects ; Congresses
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Clothing and dress ; Social aspects ; Congresses
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Human body ; Social aspects ; Congresses
;
Hygiene ; Social aspects ; Congresses
;
Nudity ; Social aspects ; Congresses
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
"A magnificent volume! It offers brand new perspectives on body politics and identity or subjectivity formation in the post-colonial world." -- Dorothy Ko, Barnard CollegeWhile there is widespread interest in dress and hygiene as vehicles of cultural, moral, and political value, little scholarly attention has been paid to cross-cultural understandings of dirt and undress, despite their equally important role in the fashioning of identity and difference. The essays in this absorbing and thought-provoking c
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; acknowledgments; Dirt, Undress, and Difference: An Introduction; 1. The Naked and the Nude: Historically Multiple Meanings of Oto (Undress) in Southeastern Nigeria; 2. Breasts, (Un)Dress, and Modernist Desires inthe Balinese-Tourist Encounter; 3. Body Talk: Revelations of Self and Body in Contemporary Strip Clubs; 4. The Naked Spirit: Disrobing, Deviance, andDissent in Bori Possession; 5. Japanese Bodies and Western Ways of Seeing inthe Late Nineteenth Century; 6. Purity and Conquest in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; 7. Did You Bathe This Morning? Baths and Morality in Botswana
Description / Table of Contents:
8. The Politics of Dirt and Gender: Body Techniques in Bengali India9. Corrupted Alterities: Body Politics in the Time of the Iranian Diaspora; list of contributors; index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Papers originally presented at a panel entitled "The Politics of Dirt and Nudity in Africa" held at the 2000 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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