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Author:
Viestad, Vibeke Maria, 1979- author.
Title:
Dress as social relations : an interpretation of Bushman dress / by Vibeke Maria Viestad.
Publisher:
Wits University Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xvi, 191 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Subject:
San (African people)
Dress codes--Symbolic aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Clothing and dress--Social aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Clothing and dress--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Costume--Symbolic aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
UCTD
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-180) and index.
Contents:
pt. 1. To dress: Background and perspectives. The myth of the naked Bushman -- How to study Bushman dress -- pt. 2. Dressed in social structure: The Bushman dress of Dorothea Bleek. Field notes and diaries, 1911 and 1913 -- The South West Africa expeditions, 1920-1921 and 1921-1922 -- pt. 3. Dressed in group relations: The Bushman dress of Louis Fourie. Bushman groups materialised -- Dress noted -- pt. 4. Dressed as told: Interpreting dress practices from /Xam Bushman narratives -- Body modifications: How to live life in a sometimes-unpredictable world -- The embedded properties of clothing: Human and animal relations -- Identities in the making: Being dressed.
ISBN:
1776141911
9781776141913
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1055284925
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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