Asian material culture
By: edited by Marianne Hulsbosch (senior editor), Elizabeth Bedford and Martha Chaiklin (co-editors)
Series: ICAS publications series. Edited volumes -- 4; ICAS publication series -- 4.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9789089640901
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Asian material culture in context / Marianne Hulsbosch, Elizabeth Bedford & Martha Chaiklin; title: Moon cakes and the Chinese mid-autumn festival : a matter of habitus / Elizabeth Bedford; title: Up in the hair : strands of meaning in women's ornamental hair accessories in early modern Japan / Martha Chaiklin; title: Nonya beadwork and contemporary Peranakan Chinese culture in Singapore and Malaysia / Hwei-Fe'n Cheah; title: Everybody was kung-fu fighting : the lion dance and Chinese national identity in the 19th and 20th centuries / Heleanor B. Feltham; title: Works like a charm : cultural tourism, colour and its efficacy in Chinese Miao traditonal dress / Samantha Hauw; title: Fluttering like flowers in the summer breeze : hair jewellery of Christian Moluccan women of the Dutch East Indies / Marianne Hulsbosch; title: Tension on the back-strap loom / Audrew Low.