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The fabrics of culture : the anthropology of clothing and adornment / ed. by Justine M. Cordwell, Ronald A. Schwarz, 1973, Chicago, Ill.› International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences ‹9.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary SeriesPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1979Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (519 p.) : Num. figs. and tabs. and mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789027979100
  • 9783111631523
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 391 20
LOC classification:
  • GN418 .F3 1979
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-XIV -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: Clothing, Culture and Communication -- The Language of Personal Adornment -- Uncovering the Secret Vice: Toward an Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment -- The Very Human Arts of Transformation -- You Dance What You Wear, and You Wear Your Cultural Values -- SECTION TWO: Signs, Symbols, and the Social Order -- Living Art Among the Samburu -- Beads and Personal Adornment -- Symbol and Identification in North American Indian Clothing -- Badaga Apparel: Protection and Symbol -- SECTION THREE: Man, Masks, and Morals -- Analysis of an African Masked Parade -- Pageantry and Power in Yoruba Costuming -- Mende Secret Societies and their Costumed Spirits -- Hortelanos: An Investigation into a Masking Tradition in a Changing Society -- SECTION FOUR: The Cloth of Culture Change -- Siona Clothing and Adornment, or, You Are What You Wear -- Sexual Differentiation and Acculturation in Potawatomi Costume -- Yoruba Dress in Five Generations of a Lagos Family -- Social Hair: Tradition and Change in Yoruba Hairstyles in Southwestern Nigeria -- Clothing and Power Abuse -- The Garments of the Present-Day Azerbaidzhan Population: Traditional and Modern Elements -- The Social Symbolism of Women's Dress -- SECTION FIVE: Technology and Textiles. -- Tablet Weaving by the Jews of San'a (Yemen) -- Sierra Leone Resist-Dyed Textiles -- The History and Development of Wax-Printed Textiles Intended for West Africa and Zaire -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
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I-XIV -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: Clothing, Culture and Communication -- The Language of Personal Adornment -- Uncovering the Secret Vice: Toward an Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment -- The Very Human Arts of Transformation -- You Dance What You Wear, and You Wear Your Cultural Values -- SECTION TWO: Signs, Symbols, and the Social Order -- Living Art Among the Samburu -- Beads and Personal Adornment -- Symbol and Identification in North American Indian Clothing -- Badaga Apparel: Protection and Symbol -- SECTION THREE: Man, Masks, and Morals -- Analysis of an African Masked Parade -- Pageantry and Power in Yoruba Costuming -- Mende Secret Societies and their Costumed Spirits -- Hortelanos: An Investigation into a Masking Tradition in a Changing Society -- SECTION FOUR: The Cloth of Culture Change -- Siona Clothing and Adornment, or, You Are What You Wear -- Sexual Differentiation and Acculturation in Potawatomi Costume -- Yoruba Dress in Five Generations of a Lagos Family -- Social Hair: Tradition and Change in Yoruba Hairstyles in Southwestern Nigeria -- Clothing and Power Abuse -- The Garments of the Present-Day Azerbaidzhan Population: Traditional and Modern Elements -- The Social Symbolism of Women's Dress -- SECTION FIVE: Technology and Textiles. -- Tablet Weaving by the Jews of San'a (Yemen) -- Sierra Leone Resist-Dyed Textiles -- The History and Development of Wax-Printed Textiles Intended for West Africa and Zaire -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

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