Each morning we establish an image and an identity for ourselves through the simple act of
getting dressed. Why Women Wear What they Wear presents an intimate ethnography of …

How can we both understand things and do full justice to their materiality? The e√ ort
seems still to be haunted and confounded by such ancient dichotomies as form and …

Everywhere around the world, people make daily decisions about what to wear or how to
dress. The Visible Self, 4th Edition, presents a systematic approach to analyzing daily rituals …

" The Princess of the Flaming Womb," the Javanese legend that introduces this pioneering
study, symbolizes the many ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asian …

In the first decades after independence in 1980, kastom-indigenous knowledge and practice-
became a key marker of ni-Vanuatu identity. However, it was almost entirely concerned with …

This volume draws together ethnographies of female initiation rites in Melanesia which
require anthropologists to rethink their analysis of initiations and their perceptions of gender …

This article examines the character and role of exchange in Bronze Age Britain. It critiques
anachronistic models of competitive individualism, arguing instead that the circulation of …

Cloth and clothing constitute the widest imaginable category of material culture, covering a
spatial domain that extends from the miles of textiles annually produced by hand or factory to …

Fashion is by nature temporary and ephemeral and its mutability makes it a difficult topic to
define and to research. It is hard to grasp precisely because of the supposed speed with …

This book is an anthropological study located along India's western border with Pakistan.
The core arguments are situated within the context of contemporary religious nationalism …