Dirt, undress, and difference : critical perspectives on the body's surface / edited by Adeline Masquelier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

American Anthropological Association. Meeting (2000 : San Francisco, Calif.)

Contributor:

Masquelier, Adeline Marie, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress--Social aspects--Congresses.

Clothing and dress.

Nudity--Social aspects--Congresses.

Nudity.

Hygiene--Social aspects--Congresses.

Hygiene.

Bathing customs--Social aspects--Congresses.

Bathing customs.

Human body--Social aspects--Congresses.

Human body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""A magnificent volume! It offers brand new perspectives on body politics and identity or subjectivity formation in the post-colonial world."" Dorothy Ko, Barnard College While there is widespread interest in dress and hygiene as vehicles of cultural, moral, and political value, little scholarly attention has been paid to cross-cultural understandings of dirt and undress, despite their equally important role in the fashioning of identity and difference. The essays in this absorbing and thought

Contents:

Dirt, undress, and difference : an introduction / Adeline Masquelier

The naked and the nude : historically multiple meanings of oto (undress) in southeastern Nigeria / Misty L. Bastian

Breasts, (un)dress, and, modernist desires in the Balinese-tourist encounter / Margaret Wiener

Body talk : revelations of self and body in contemporary strip clubs / Katherine Frank

The naked spirit : disrobing, deviance, and dissent in Bori possession / Adeline Masquelier

Japanese bodies and Western ways of seeing in the late nineteenth century / Satsuki Kawano

Purity and conquest in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan / Janice Boddy

Did you bathe this morning? : baths and morality in Botswana / Deborah Durham

The politics of dirt and gender : body techniques in Bengali India / Sarah Lamb

Corrupted alterities : body politics in the time of the Iranian diaspora / Janet Bauer.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at a panel entitled "The Politics of Dirt and Nudity in Africa" held at the 2000 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612072543

1-282-07254-4

0-253-11153-6

OCLC:

475995067