Dirt, undress, and difference
Subtitle: critical perspectives on the body's surface
By: edited by Adeline Masquelier.
Contributors: Masquelier, Adeline Marie, 1960-
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Subjects: Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Congresses; Nudity -- Social aspects -- Congresses; Hygiene -- Social aspects -- Congresses; Bathing customs -- Social aspects -- Congresses; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Table of contents: title: Dirt, undress, and difference : an introduction / Adeline Masquelier; title: The naked and the nude : historically multiple meanings of oto (undress) in southeastern Nigeria / Misty L. Bastian; title: Breasts, (un)dress, and, modernist desires in the Balinese-tourist encounter / Margaret Wiener; title: Body talk : revelations of self and body in contemporary strip clubs / Katherine Frank; title: The naked spirit : disrobing, deviance, and dissent in Bori possession / Adeline Masquelier; title: Japanese bodies and Western ways of seeing in the late nineteenth century / Satsuki Kawano; title: Purity and conquest in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan / Janice Boddy; title: Did you bathe this morning? : baths and morality in Botswana / Deborah Durham; title: The politics of dirt and gender : body techniques in Bengali India / Sarah Lamb; title: Corrupted alterities : body politics in the time of the Iranian diaspora / Janet Bauer.