ISBN:
9789027979100
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (533 p)
Serie:
World Anthropology
Paralleltitel:
Print version Fabrics of Culture : The Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment
DDC:
391
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
""General Editor�s Preface""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""SECTION ONE: CLOTHING, CULTURE, AND COMMUNICATION""; ""The Language of Personal Adornment""; ""Uncovering the Secret Vice: Toward an Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment""; ""The Very Human Arts of Transformation""; ""You Dance What You Wear, and You Wear Your Cultural Values""; ""SECTION TWO: SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND THE SOCIAL ORDER""; ""Living Art Among the Samburu""; ""Beads and Personal Adornment""; ""Symbol and Identification in North American Indian Clothing""; ""Badaga Apparel: Protection and Symbol""
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
""SECTION THREE: MAN, MASKS, AND MORALS""""Analysis of an African Masked Parade""; ""Pageantry and Power in Yoruba Costuming""; ""Mende Secret Societies and their Costumed Spirits""; ""Hortelanos: An Investigation into a Masking Tradition in a Changing Society""; ""SECTION FOUR: THE CLOTH OF CULTURE CHANGE""; ""Siona Clothing and Adornment, or, You Are What You Wear""; ""Sexual Differentiation and Acculturation in Potawatomi Costume""; ""Yoruba Dress in Five Generations of a Lagos Family""; ""Social Hair: Tradition and Change in Yoruba Hairstyles in Southwestern Nigeria""
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
""Clothing and Power Abuse""""The Garments of the Present-Day Azerbaidzhan Population: Traditional and Modern Elements""; ""The Social Symbolism of Women�s Dress""; ""SECTION FIVE: TECHNOLOGY AND TEXTILES""; ""Tablet Weaving by the Jews of San�a (Yemen)""; ""Sierra Leone Resist-Dyed Textiles""; ""The History and Development of Wax-Printed Textiles Intended for West Africa and Zaire""; ""Biographical Notes""; ""Index of Names""; ""Index of Subjects""
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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