Bruce Ingham, Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper

Languages of Dress in the Middle East

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Considers how the languages of dress in the region connect with other social practices, and with political and religious conformity in particular. Treating cases as diverse as practices of veiling in Oman and dress reform laws in Turkey, these ethnographic studies extend from Malta to the ME and Caucasus.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780700706716
• ISBN-10: 0700706712
• Artikelnr.: 26040732

Autorenporträt

Ingham, Bruce; Lindisfarne-Tapper, Nancy

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One Approaches to the Study of Dress in the Middle East
Nancy Lindisfame-Tapper
Bruce Ingham; Chapter Two Mens Dress in the Arabian Peninsula: Historical and Present Perspectives
Bruce Ingham; Chapter Three Changing the Habits of a Lifetime: The Adaptation of Hejazi Dress to the New Social Order
Mai Yamani; Chapter Four The Dress of the Shahsevan Tribespeople of Iranian Azerbaijan
Nancy Lindisfame-Tapper; Chapter Five Felt Capes and Masks of the Caucasus
Robert Chenciner; Chapter Six Male Dress in the Caucasus: with special reference to Abkhazia and Georgia
George Hewitt
Zaira Khiba; Chapter Seven Fashions and Styles: Maltese Women's Headdress
Dionisius Albertus Agius; Chapter Eight The Burqa Face Cover: An Aspect of Dress in Southeastern Arabia
Dawn Chatty; Chapter Nine Faith and Fashion in Turkey
John Norton; Chapter Ten Politics of Dress: The Dress Reform Laws of 1920/30s Iran
Patricia L. Baker;