Dress and Ethnicity - Change Across Space and Time

From African-American women''s headwraps to beauty pageants in Swaziland, this absorbing book explores ethnicity through the frequently noticed but less often analyzed human phenomenon of dress. The authors -- ethnographers, folklorists, and textile scholars -- present case studies from around the world to illustrate their different theoretical frameworks and assumptions. In considering how the body is modified and supplemented they discuss not only garments and accessories but also hairstyles and cosmetics.>

Product details

• Authors: Joanne B Eicher, Joanne Bubolz Eicher
• Assisted by: Joanne B. Eicher (Editor), Eicher Joanne B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1999
• EAN: 9781859730034
• ISBN: 978-1-85973-003-4
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 214 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Avebury Series in Philosophy; Avebury Series in Philosophy; Ethnicity and Identity; Ethnicity and Identity Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Fashion & society, Cultural studies: dress and society