Dress and Ethnicity: Change Across Space and Time

by Joanne B. Eicher

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007IGSCUO
• ISBN13: 9781859730034
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.5"