Frontmatter -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: Clothing, Culture and Communication -- The Language of Personal Adornment / ROACH, MARY ELLEN / EICHER, JOANNE BUBOLZ -- Uncovering the Secret Vice: Toward an Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment / SCHWARZ, RONALD A. -- The Very Human Arts of Transformation / CORDWELL, JUSTINE M. -- You Dance What You Wear, and You Wear Your Cultural Values / KEALI'INOHOMOKU, JOANN W. -- SECTION TWO: Signs, Symbols, and the Social Order -- Living Art Among the Samburu / COLE, HERBERT M. -- Beads and Personal Adornment / POKORNOWSKI, ILA -- Symbol and Identification in North American Indian Clothing / MAURER, EVAN Μ. -- Badaga Apparel: Protection and Symbol / HOCKINGS, PAUL -- SECTION THREE: Man, Masks, and Morals -- Analysis of an African Masked Parade / OTTENBERG, SIMON -- Pageantry and Power in Yoruba Costuming / DREWAL, HENRY JOHN -- Mende Secret Societies and their Costumed Spirits / REINHARDT, LORETTA R. -- Hortelanos: An Investigation into a Masking Tradition in a Changing Society / ESSER, JANET BRODY -- SECTION FOUR: The Cloth of Culture Change -- Siona Clothing and Adornment, or, You Are What You Wear / LANGDON, E. JEAN -- Sexual Differentiation and Acculturation in Potawatomi Costume / MILLER, MARGARET THOMPSON -- Yoruba Dress in Five Generations of a Lagos Family / WASS, BETTY M. -- Social Hair: Tradition and Change in Yoruba Hairstyles in Southwestern Nigeria / HOULBERG, MARILYN HAMMERSLEY -- Clothing and Power Abuse / EHRENFELS, U. R. VON -- The Garments of the Present-Day Azerbaidzhan Population: Traditional and Modern Elements / TROFIMOVA, A. G. -- The Social Symbolism of Women's Dress / ROACH, MARY ELLEN -- SECTION FIVE: Technology and Textiles. -- Tablet Weaving by the Jews of San'a (Yemen) / KLEIN, A. -- Sierra Leone Resist-Dyed Textiles / WAHLMAN, MAUDE / CHUTA, ENYINNA -- The History and Development of Wax-Printed Textiles Intended for West Africa and Zaire / NIELSEN, RUTH -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjectsweiterlesen