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Summary:

Dress Sense explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how they attach value and significance to clothing. Inspired by the work of Joanne B. Eicher, contributors offer different multi-disciplinary perspectives on this key and unexplored topic in dress and sensory anthropology. The essays present historical, contemporary and global views, from British imperial dress in India, to revolutionary Socialist dress. Issues of body and identity are brought to the fore in the sexual power of Ghanian women's waistbeads, the way cross-dressers feel about their clothing, and how the latest three-dimensional body-scanning technology affects people's perception of themselves and their bodies. For students and researchers of dress and anthropology, Dress Sense will be invaluable in understanding the cross-cultural, emotional and sensual experience of dress and clothing.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction, Helen Bradley Foster and Donald Clay Johnson Part I. Historical Perspectives 1. Sight, Sound, and Sentiment in Greek Village Dress, Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island 2. More than Costume History: Dress in Somali Culture, Heather Marie Akou, Indiana University 3. Dress, Hungarian Socialism, and Resistance, Katalin Medvedev, University of Minnesota 4. Clothes Make the Empire: British Dress in India, Donald Clay Johnson, University of Minnesota 5. African American Enslavement and Escaping in Disguise, Helen Bradley Foster, University of Minnesota Part II. Living Traditions 6. Indian Madras Plaids as Real India, Sandra Evenson, University of Idaho 7. The Role of Scents and the Body in Turkey, Marlene Breu, Western Michigan University 8. Awakening the Senses: the Aesthetics of Moroccan Berber Dress, Cynthia Becker, Boston University 9. The Power of Touch: Women's Waistbeads in Ghana, Suzanne Gott, Kansas City Art Institute 10. Performing Dress and Adornment in Southeastern Nigeria, Sarah Adams, University of Iowa Part III. Challenging Traditions 11. Women, Migration, and the Experience of Dress, Mary A. Littrell, Colorado State University and Jennifer Paff Ogle, Colorado State University 12. Handmade Textiles: Manufacturing African Authenticity, Victoria L. Rovine, University of Florida 13. Growing Old and Dressing (Dis)Gracefully, Annette Lynch, University of Northern Iowa, M. Elise Radina, Miami University and Marybeth C. Stalp, University of Northern Iowa Part IV. The Future 14. Embodying the Feminine: Male-to-Female cross-Dressing, Jane E. Hegland, South Dakota State University and Nancy Nelson Hodges, University of North Carolina 15. Virtual Sensation: Dress Online, Suzanne Loker, Cornell University and Susan P. Ashdown, Cornell University

Contributors:

Johnson, Donald Clay, 1940-

Foster, Helen Bradley

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Clothing and dress — Psychological aspects

General Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Audience:

Specialized.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 188 p.) : ill.

Call Numbers:

GT524 .D747 2007eb

ISBNs:

9781847887139 (ebook)

OCLC Numbers:

1060862576

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: bflEDZ0000014309