Dirt, Undress, and Difference Critical Perspectives on the Body's Surface

Name: Dirt, Undress, and Difference Critical Perspectives on the Body's Surface
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ISBN: 9780253217837

ISBN-10: 0253217830

ISBN-13: 9780253217837

Edition: 2005

Authors: Adeline Masquelier, Adeline Marie Masquelier

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The contributors in this volume explore how transgressions of the body's surface, dirt and undress in many forms, take on cultural, political, and moral value. The essays contribute new insights into the neglected topics of bodily treatments and transgressions.

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Adeline Masquelier is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University and author of Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger.



Dirt, undress and difference : an introduction




The naked and the nude : historically multiple meanings of Oto (undress) in southeastern Nigeria




Breasts, (un)dress, and modernist desires in the Balinese-tourist encounter




Body talk : revelations of self and body in contemporary strip clubs




The naked spirit : disrobing, deviance, and dissent in Bori possession




Japanese bodies and Western ways of seeing in the late nineteenth century




Purity and conquest in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan




Did you bathe this morning? : baths and morality in Botswana




The politics of dirt and gender : body techniques in Bengali India