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.

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• MitwirkendeR: CHUTA, ENYINNA,; COLE, HERBERT M.,; CORDWELL, JUSTINE M.,; DREWAL, HENRY JOHN,; EHRENFELS, U. R. VON,; EICHER, JOANNE BUBOLZ,; ESSER, JANET BRODY,; HOCKINGS, PAUL,; HOULBERG, MARILYN HAMMERSLEY,; KEALI\x27INOHOMOKU, JOANN W.,; KLEIN, A.,; LANGDON, E. JEAN,; MAURER, EVAN Μ.,; MILLER, MARGARET THOMPSON,; NIELSEN, RUTH,; OTTENBERG, SIMON,; POKORNOWSKI, ILA,; REINHARDT, LORETTA R.,; ROACH, MARY ELLEN,; SCHWARZ, RONALD A.,; TROFIMOVA, A. G.,; WAHLMAN, MAUDE,; WASS, BETTY M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cordwell, Justine M.,; International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences ‹9, 1973, Chicago, Ill.›,; Schwarz, Ronald A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (519 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs. and maps.
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783111631523; 9783110637922
• DOI: 10.1515/9783111631523
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Justine M. Cordwell, Ronald A. Schwarz, 1973, Chicago, Ill.› International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences ‹9.