Dirt, Undress, and Difference : Critical Perspectives on the Body's Surface.

While 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Masquelier, Adeline
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2005.
Temas:
Clothing and dress > Social aspects > Congresses.
Nudity > Social aspects > Congresses.
Hygiene > Social aspects > Congresses.
Bathing customs > Social aspects > Congresses.
Human body > Social aspects > Congresses.
Vêtements > Aspect social > Congrès.
Nudité > Aspect social > Congrès.
Hygiène > Aspect social > Congrès.
Bains > Aspect social > Congrès.
Corps humain > Aspect social > Congrès.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Beauty & Grooming.
Clothing and dress > Social aspects
Human body > Social aspects
Hygiene > Social aspects
Nudity > Social aspects
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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