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Dress as social relations : an interpretation of Bushman dress / by Vibeke Maria Viestad.

By: Viestad, Vibeke Maria, 1979- [author.]Material type: TextTextSpoken language: English Publisher: Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2018Description: xvi, 191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781776141913; 1776141911Subject(s): 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-SaharanDDC classification: 391 VIES
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.
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Includes bibliographies and index (page 172-180).

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.

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