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Dress as social relations

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Dress as social relations

By Vibeke Maria Viestad

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About the book

To dress is a uniquely human experience, but practices and meanings of dress vary greatly among people. In a Western cultural tradition, the practice of dressing `properly' has for centuries distinguished `civilised' people from `savages'. Through travel literature and historical ethnographic descriptions of the Bushmen of southern Africa, such perceptions and prejudices have made their mark also on the modern research tradition. Because Bushmen were widely considered to be `nearly naked' the st...Show more

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9781776141913

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Wits University Press

Published year

2018

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1

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Dress as social relations

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