| Description |
ix, 276 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Sussex library of Asian studies. |
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Sussex library of Asian studies.
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| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Trans-national flows and the politics of dress in Asia and the Americas / Louise Edwards and Mina Roces -- Gender, nation and the politics of dress in twentieth-century Philippines / Mina Roces -- Dressing for power : scholars' robes, school uniforms and military attire in China / Louise Edwards -- Refashioning civilization : dress and bodily practice in Thai nation-building / Maurizio Peleggi -- Gender, citizenship and dress in modernizing Japan / Barbara Molony -- Identity, nation and Islam : a dialogue about men's and women's dress in Indonesia / Jean Gelman Taylor -- "Dressed in a little brief authority" : clothing the body politic in Burma / Penny Edwards -- Power dressing on the prairies : the grammar of Blackfoot leadership dress 1750-1930 / Blanca Tovias -- Nationalism and national dress in Spanish America / Rebecca Earle -- Refashioning the Inca : costume, political power and identity in late Bourbon Peru / David Cahill -- Wigs, weapons, tattoos and shoes : getting dressed in colonial Amazonia and Brazil / Barbara A. Sommer -- Fabricating specimen citizens : nation building in nineteenth-century Mexico / Magali M. Carrera -- Urban expressions of solidarity : fashioning citizenship in Argentina / Regina A. Root. |
| Subject |
Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- Asia.
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Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Asia.
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Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- America.
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Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- America.
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| Alt Name |
Roces, Mina, 1959-
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Edwards, Louise P.
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| ISBN |
9781845191634 |
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1845191633 |
| OCLC # |
170039477 |
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