Clothing matters : dress and identity in India 9781850651628, 1850651620, 9781850651765, 1850651760

Focusing on the problem of what to wear rather than describing what is worn, this study demonstrates how different indiv

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Clothing matters : dress and identity in India
9781850651628, 1850651620, 9781850651765, 1850651760

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This collection of papers on 'Dress and Identity' arose from a seminar series held by the Institute of Archaeo

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In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the clothing of the rural working

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From nineteenth-century broad arrows and black and white stripes to twenty first-century orange jumpsuits, prison clothi

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Attitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of

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Why is India's rise on the world stage so controversial? How can a state that is losing authority to its regions at

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In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and war in Afghanistan, the Fulbright New Century Scholars program brou

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Built upon the flourishing study of costume, this book analyses sartorial evidence provided both by texts of the ancient

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Through analyzing dress in detective fiction, Fear and Clothing reveals a cultural history of identity affected by the s

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