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Dress as Social Relations : An interpretation of Bushman dress /
To dress is a uniquely human experience, but practices and meanings of dress vary greatly among people. In a Western cultural tradition, the practice of dressing 'properly' has for centuries distinguished 'civilised' people from 'savages'. Through travel literature and...
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Johannesburg :
Wits University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Titel
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Part I: To Dress: Background and Perspectives
- The problem
- Scope of the approach
- The questions
- The outline
- Chapter 1 The Myth of the Naked Bushman
- Scientific racism and the exhibition of Bushmen
- Early Bushman ethnography
- Modern Bushman ethnography
- Chapter 2 How to Study Bushman Dress
- A definition of dress
- The significance of dress
- Pieces of dress: Lost and found
- Mix and match: A theoretical bricolage
- Research material
- A museal paradox
- Part II: Dressed in Social Structure: The Bushman Dress of Dorothea Bleek
- Reconstructing the /auni dress
- Reconstructing the Basarwa dress
- Reconstructing the Naron dress
- Dressing 'the naked Bushman'
- Chapter 3 Field Notes and Diaries, 1911 and 1913
- Words and sentences
- Kyky, Gordonia, 10 October to 21 November 1911
- Kakia, Bechuanaland Protectorate, 23 June to 1 August 1913
- Dressing 'the Bushman'
- Chapter 4 The South West Africa Expeditions, 1920-1921 and 1921-1922
- OES beads and beadwork
- Skin-work
- Tattoos and cut marks
- 'Fragrant' necklaces and tortoiseshell containers
- Dress as social structure
- Part III: Dressed in Group Relations: The Bushman Dress of Louis Fourie
- The artefact collection
- The paper archive
- The photographs
- Chapter 5 Bushman Groups Materialised
- The ≠Ao-//ein
- The Naron
- The Nu-//ein
- The Hei-//om
- Photographing objects
- Photographing people
- Chapter 6 Dress Noted
- OES beads and beadwork
- Skin-work
- Tattoos and cut marks
- Necklaces/medicines
- Dress as group relations
- Part IV: Dressed as Told: Interpreting Dress Practices from /Xam Bushman Narratives
- People of the archive
- The archive: Context and scholarly tradition
- Signifiers of dress
- Analytical concepts
- The narratives
- Chapter 7 Body Modifications: How to Live Life in a Sometimes-Unpredictable World
- 'Acting nicely' towards the Rain
- Dressed in Ssho /oa
- Chapter 8 The Embedded Properties of Clothing: Human and Animal Relations
- Becoming human, becoming animal
- Springbok sorcerers
- Chapter 9 Identities in the Making: Being Dressed
- The narratives
- /Xam dress as social relations
- Conclusion: A World of Dress
- The questions
- The results
- Some implications
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1 Note on Nomenclature
- Bushmen, San, Basarwa and Khoisan
- Different names for the same group of people
- Appendix 2 Map of Southern Africa
- Bibliography
- Unpublished sources
- Online sources
- Literature
- Index
- Back Cover