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Clothing the Pacific

Author: Chloë Colchester
Publisher: Oxford : Berg, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Chloë Colchester
ISBN: 1859736661 9781859736661 1859736718 9781859736715
OCLC Number: 51068454
Description: xvi, 215 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction / Chloë Colchester --
Pt. I. Clothing the body --
The gods stripped bare / Alain Babadzan --
On cloth, gifts and nudity : regarding some European misunderstandings during early encounters in Polynesia / Serge Tcherkézoff --
Pt. II. Clothing and the appropriations of christianity --
The case of the misplaced ponchos : speculations concerning the history of cloth in Polynesia / Nicholas Thomas --
The poncho and the quilt : material christianity in the Cook Islands / Susanne Küchler --
Pt. III. Clothing and agency --
Gender, status and introduced clothing in Vanuatu / Lissant Bolton --
God's kingdom in Auckland : Tongan christian dress and the expression of duty / Ping-Ann Addo --
Pt. IV. Clothing in the diaspora --
T-shirts, translation and humour : on the nature of wearer-perceiver relationships in South Auckland / Chloë Colchester --
Getting specific : Pacific fashion activism in Auckland during the 1990s / Rosanna Raymond.
Responsibility: edited by Chloë Colchester.
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