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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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