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Dress sense : emotional and sensory experiences of the body and clothes
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Dress sense : emotional and sensory experiences of the body and clothes

Author: Donald Clay Johnson; Helen Bradley Foster
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : English edView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Donald Clay Johnson; Helen Bradley Foster
ISBN: 9781845206925 1845206924 9781845206932 1845206932
OCLC Number: 145554537
Description: xii, 188 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Sight, sound, and sentiment in Greek village dress / Linda Welters --
More than costume history : dress in Somali culture / Heather Marie Akou --
Dress, Hungarian socialism, and resistance / Katalin Medvedev --
Clothes make the empire : British dress in India / Donald Clay Johnson --
African American enslavement and escaping in disguise / Helen Bradley Foster --
Role of scents and the body in Turkey / Marlene R. Breu --
Awakening the senses : the aesthetics of Moroccan Berber dress / Cynthia Becker --
Power of touch : women's waist beads in Ghana / Suzanne Gott --
Indian Madras plaids as real India / Sandra Lee Evenson --
Performing dress and adornment in Southeastern Nigeria / Sarah Adams --
Women, migration, and the experience of dress / Mary A. Littrell and Jennifer Paff Ogle --
Handmade, textiles : global markets and authenticity / Victoria L. Rovine --
Growing old and dressing (Dis) gracefully / Annette Lynch, M. Elise Radina, and Marybeth C. Stalp --
Embodying the feminine : male-to-female cross-dressing / Jane E. Hegland and Nancy Nelson Hodges --
Virtual sensation : dress online / Suzanne Loker and Susan P. Ashdown.
Responsibility: edited by Donald Clay Johnson and Helen Bradley Foster.
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Explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how they attach value and significance to clothing. This work features essays that present historical, contemporary and  Read more...

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