The Garments of the Present-Day Azerbaidzhan Population: Traditional and Modern Elements

Chapters in this book

1. I-XIV I
2. Introduction 1
3. SECTION ONE: Clothing, Culture and Communication
4. The Language of Personal Adornment 7
5. Uncovering the Secret Vice: Toward an Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment 23
6. The Very Human Arts of Transformation 47
7. You Dance What You Wear, and You Wear Your Cultural Values 77
8. SECTION TWO: Signs, Symbols, and the Social Order
9. Living Art Among the Samburu 87
10. Beads and Personal Adornment 103
11. Symbol and Identification in North American Indian Clothing 119
12. Badaga Apparel: Protection and Symbol 143
13. SECTION THREE: Man, Masks, and Morals
14. Analysis of an African Masked Parade 177
15. Pageantry and Power in Yoruba Costuming 189
16. Mende Secret Societies and their Costumed Spirits 231
17. Hortelanos: An Investigation into a Masking Tradition in a Changing Society 267
18. SECTION FOUR: The Cloth of Culture Change
19. Siona Clothing and Adornment, or, You Are What You Wear 297
20. Sexual Differentiation and Acculturation in Potawatomi Costume 313
21. Yoruba Dress in Five Generations of a Lagos Family 331
22. Social Hair: Tradition and Change in Yoruba Hairstyles in Southwestern Nigeria 349
23. Clothing and Power Abuse 399
24. The Garments of the Present-Day Azerbaidzhan Population: Traditional and Modern Elements 405
25. The Social Symbolism of Women's Dress 415
26. SECTION FIVE: Technology and Textiles.
27. Tablet Weaving by the Jews of San'a (Yemen) 425
28. Sierra Leone Resist-Dyed Textiles 447
29. The History and Development of Wax-Printed Textiles Intended for West Africa and Zaire 467
30. Biographical Notes 499
31. Index of Names 505
32. Index of Subjects 511