Wedding dress across cultures
By: edited by Helen Bradley Foster and Donald Clay Johnson.
Contributors: Foster, Helen Bradley.; Johnson, Donald Clay, 1940-
Series: Dress, body, culture
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Wedding costume -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Something plain and simple? unpacking custom-made wedding dresses from western Canada (1950-1995) / Kathryn Church; title: Satin dresses and caribou kamiks: negotiation of tradition in northern Alaskan Iñupiaq weddings / Cyd Martin; title: Packaged in Japan: elite weddings in Osaka / Masami Suga; title: Korean wedding dress from the Chosun dynasty (1392-1910) to present / Na Young Hong; title: Marriage and dowry customs of the Rabari of Kutch: evolving traditions / Eiluned Edwards; title: Pragmatism and enigmas: the Panetar and Gharcholu saris in Gujarati weddings / Donald Clay Johnson; title: Swazi bridal attire: culture, traditions and customs / Lombusa S. Khoza and Laura Kidd; title: Gender, identity and Moroccan weddings: the adornment of the Ait Kabbash Berber bride and groom / Cynthia Becker; title: An Athenian wedding, year 2000 / Helen Bradley Foster; title: An historic perspective of English and Soviet bridalwear between 1917 and 1960 / Janice Mee and Irina Safronova; title: He gave her sandals and she gave him a tunic: cloth and weddings in the Andes / Lynn A. Meisch; title: Slavic wedding customs on two continents / Patricia Williams; title: Always remembering the motherland: Tai Dam wedding textiles and dress / Elyse Demaray and Melody Keim-Shenk; title: The American groom wore a Celtic kilt: theme weddings as carnivalesque events / Theresa M. Winge and Joanne B. Eicher.