| Description |
x, 264 p. : ill. |
| Note |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Nudity -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Hygiene -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Bathing customs -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Masquelier, Adeline Marie, 1960-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0253346282 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0253217830 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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