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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-02 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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In virtually all the countries of the world, men, and to a lesser extent women, are today dressed in very similar clothing. This book gives a compelling account
Dressing Global Bodies
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Pages: 328
Authors: Beverly Lemire
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Dressing Global Bodies addresses the complex politics of dress and fashion from a global perspective spanning four centuries, tying the early global to more con
Sri Lanka in the Modern Age
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Since the late 1970s civil war has left Sri Lanka in an almost permanent state of crisis; conventional histories of the country by liberal and Marxist scholars
The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture
Language: en
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The universal act of dressing—shared by both men and women, young and old, rich and poor, minority and majority—has shaped human interactions, communicated