ISBN:
0253346282
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0253217830
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 264 S.
,
Ill.
DDC:
391
Keywords:
Bains - Aspect social - Congrès
;
Corps humain - Aspect social - Congrès
;
Hygiène - Aspect social - Congrès
;
Nudité - Aspect social - Congrès
;
Vêtements - Aspect social - Congrès
;
Gesellschaft
;
Clothing and dress Congresses Social aspects
;
Nudity Congresses Social aspects
;
Hygiene Congresses Social aspects
;
Bathing customs Congresses Social aspects
;
Body, Human Congresses Social aspects
;
Nacktheit
;
Körperpflege
;
Körper
;
Kulturanthropologe
;
Afrika
;
Asien
;
Konferenzschrift 2000
;
Konferenzschrift 2000
;
Konferenzschrift 2000
;
Konferenzschrift 2000
;
Konferenzschrift 2000
;
Konferenzschrift 2000
;
Afrika
;
Nacktheit
;
Asien
;
Nacktheit
;
Körper
;
Nacktheit
;
Körperpflege
;
Kulturanthropologe
Description / Table of Contents:
Dirt, undress, and difference: an introduction / Adeline Masquelier -- The naked and the nude : historically multiple meanings of oto (undress) in southeastern Nigeria / Misty L. Bastian -- Breasts, (un)dress, and, modernist desires in the Balinese-tourist encounter / Margaret Wiener -- Body talk : revelations of self and body in contemporary strip clubs / Katherine Frank -- The naked spirit : disrobing, deviance, and dissent in Bori possession / Adeline Masquelier -- Japanese bodies and Western ways of seeing in the late nineteenth century / Satsuki Kawano -- Purity and conquest in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan / Janice Boddy -- Did you bathe this morning? : baths and morality in Botswana / Deborah Durham -- The politics of dirt and gender : body techniques in Bengali India / Sarah Lamb -- Corrupted alterities : body politics in the time of the Iranian diaspora / Janet Bauer.
Note:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index
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