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Dress as Social Relations - An Interpretation of Bushman Dress (Paperback)
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Dress as Social Relations - An Interpretation of Bushman Dress (Paperback)
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To dress is a uniquely human experience, but practices and meanings
of dress vary greatly among people. In a Western cultural
tradition, the practice of dressing `properly' has for centuries
distinguished `civilised' people from `savages'. Through travel
literature and historical ethnographic descriptions of the Bushmen
of southern Africa, such perceptions and prejudices have made their
mark also on the modern research tradition. Because Bushmen were
widely considered to be `nearly naked' the study of dress has
played a limited part in academic writings on Bushman culture. In
Dress as Social Relations Vibeke Maria Viestad challenges this myth
of the nearly naked Bushman and provides an interdisciplinary study
of Bushman dress, as it is represented in the archives and material
culture of historical Bushman communities. Maintaining a critical
perspective, Viestad provides an interpretation of the significance
of dress for historical Bushman people. Dress, she argues, formed
an embodied practice of social relations between humans, animals
and other powerful beings of the Bushman world; moreover, this
complex and meaningful practice was intimately related to
subsistence strategies and social identity. The historical
collections under scrutiny present a wide variety of research
material representing different aspects of the bodily practice of
dress. Whereas the Bleek & Lloyd archive of oral myths and
narratives has become renowned for its great research potential,
the artefact collections of Dorothea Bleek and Louis Fourie are
much less known and have not earlier been published in a richly
illustrated and comprehensive way. Dress as Social Relations is
aimed at scholars and students of archaeology, anthropology,
material culture studies, dress studies, ethnographic studies,
museology, culture historical studies and African studies, but will
also be of interest to people of descendant communities.
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