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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 Corporativo: American Anthropological Association. Annual Meeting
Otros Autores: Masquelier, Adeline Marie, 1960-
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:
  • 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.

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