LEADER 03677nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910784579303321 005 20230710225158.0 010 $a9786612072543 010 $a1-282-07254-4 010 $a0-253-11153-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000362376 035 $a(EBL)268938 035 $a(OCoLC)475995067 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000139514 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11144748 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139514 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10010216 035 $a(PQKB)10754233 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC268938 035 $a(OCoLC)71316995 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16701 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL268938 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10137807 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL207254 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000362376 100 $a20050222d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDirt, undress, and difference $ecritical perspectives on the body's surface /$feditor, Adeline Masquelier 210 1$aBloomington :$cIndiana University Press,$d2005. 215 $a1 online resource (281 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aPapers originally presented at a panel entitled "The Politics of Dirt and Nudity in Africa" held at the 2000 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco. 311 0 $a0-253-21783-0 311 0 $a0-253-34628-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aDirt, undress, and difference : an introduction / Adeline Masquelier -- The naked and the nude : historically multiple meanings of oto (undress) in southeastern Nigeria / Misty L. Bastian -- Breasts, (un)dress, and, modernist desires in the Balinese-tourist encounter / Margaret Wiener -- Body talk : revelations of self and body in contemporary strip clubs / Katherine Frank -- The naked spirit : disrobing, deviance, and dissent in Bori possession / Adeline Masquelier -- Japanese bodies and Western ways of seeing in the late nineteenth century / Satsuki Kawano -- Purity and conquest in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan / Janice Boddy -- Did you bathe this morning? : baths and morality in Botswana / Deborah Durham -- The politics of dirt and gender : body techniques in Bengali India / Sarah Lamb -- Corrupted alterities : body politics in the time of the Iranian diaspora / Janet Bauer. 330 $a""A magnificent volume! It offers brand new perspectives on body politics and identity or subjectivity formation in the post-colonial world."" Dorothy Ko, Barnard College While there is widespread interest in dress and hygiene as vehicles of cultural, moral, and political value, little scholarly attention has been paid to cross-cultural understandings of dirt and undress, despite their equally important role in the fashioning of identity and difference. The essays in this absorbing and thought 606 $aClothing and dress$xSocial aspects$vCongresses 606 $aNudity$xSocial aspects$vCongresses 606 $aHygiene$xSocial aspects$vCongresses 606 $aBathing customs$xSocial aspects$vCongresses 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects$vCongresses 615 0$aClothing and dress$xSocial aspects 615 0$aNudity$xSocial aspects 615 0$aHygiene$xSocial aspects 615 0$aBathing customs$xSocial aspects 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects 676 $a391 701 $aMasquelier$b Adeline Marie$f1960-$0853799 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784579303321 996 $aDirt, undress, and difference$93740107 997 $aUNINA