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Psychology

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Anthropology

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Psychology

General Editor’s Preface
Preface
Introduction
SECTION ONE: CLOTHING, CULTURE, AND COMMUNICATION
The Language of Personal Adornment
Uncovering the Secret Vice: Toward an Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment
The Very Human Arts of Transformation
You Dance What You Wear, and You Wear Your Cultural Values
SECTION TWO: SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
Living Art Among the Samburu
Beads and Personal Adornment
Symbol and Identification in North American Indian Clothing
Badaga Apparel: Protection and Symbol
SECTION THREE: MAN, MASKS, AND MORALS
Analysis of an African Masked Parade
Pageantry and Power in Yoruba Costuming
Mende Secret Societies and their Costumed Spirits
Hortelanos: An Investigation into a Masking Tradition in a Changing Society
SECTION FOUR: THE CLOTH OF CULTURE CHANGE
Siona Clothing and Adornment, or, You Are What You Wear
Sexual Differentiation and Acculturation in Potawatomi Costume
Yoruba Dress in Five Generations of a Lagos Family
Social Hair: Tradition and Change in Yoruba Hairstyles in Southwestern Nigeria
Clothing and Power Abuse
The Garments of the Present-Day Azerbaidzhan Population: Traditional and Modern Elements
The Social Symbolism of Women’s Dress
SECTION FIVE: TECHNOLOGY AND TEXTILES
Tablet Weaving by the Jews of San’a (Yemen)
Sierra Leone Resist-Dyed Textiles
The History and Development of Wax-Printed Textiles Intended for West Africa and Zaire
Biographical Notes
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

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