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Fluid Dynamics: Volume I (Hardcover): Bradley Foster Fluid Dynamics: Volume I (Hardcover)
Bradley Foster
R2,994 Discovery Miles 29 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Dress Sense - Emotional and Sensory Experiences of the Body and Clothes (Hardcover): Donald Clay Johnson, Helen Bradley Foster Dress Sense - Emotional and Sensory Experiences of the Body and Clothes (Hardcover)
Donald Clay Johnson, Helen Bradley Foster
R3,716 Discovery Miles 37 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dress Sense explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how they attach value and significance to clothing. Inspired by the work of Joanne B. Eicher, contributors offer different multi-disciplinary perspectives on this key and unexplored topic in dress and sensory anthropology. The essays present historical, contemporary and global views, from British imperial dress in India, to revolutionary Socialist dress. Issues of body and identity are brought to the fore in the sexual power of Ghanian women's waistbeads, the way cross-dressers feel about their clothing, and how the latest three-dimensional body-scanning technology affects people's perception of themselves and their bodies. For students and researchers of dress and anthropology, Dress Sense will be invaluable in understanding the cross-cultural, emotional and sensual experience of dress and clothing.

Wedding Dress across Cultures (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed): Helen Bradley Foster, Donald Clay Johnson Wedding Dress across Cultures (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
Helen Bradley Foster, Donald Clay Johnson
R4,040 Discovery Miles 40 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although the Victorian white wedding dominates western bridal dress and large portions of former colonial empires, marriage rituals vary significantly throughout the world. The Japanese, for instance, combine both traditional ceremonies with receptions utilizing western approaches to dress. In the Andes the bride will personally create a multi-layered dress to showcase her weaving skills. Berber brides in Morocco wear binding clothing that covers their faces, a notable contrast to Canadian prairie-province brides whose stylized gowns individualize and enhance body shape. This engaging book examines the evolution and ritual functions of wedding attire within the context of particular cultures. It raises questions as to the relationship between contemporary wedding attire and traditional values. It discusses the changes international migrations have had upon the wedding dress of several ethnic groups. It provides insights into numerous societal relationships to weddings, such as the ban on bridal-produced embroidery in dowries in India, the challenges individual values have to larger societal ones in themed weddings, and the relationship between the return to pre-western attire and identity politics. Exploring these issues, the authors provide unusual insights into the centrality of dress in shaping individual identity as well as its importance in reflecting cultural values and ideals.

Fluid Dynamics: Volume IV (Hardcover): Bradley Foster Fluid Dynamics: Volume IV (Hardcover)
Bradley Foster
R2,994 Discovery Miles 29 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Fluid Dynamics: Volume III (Hardcover): Bradley Foster Fluid Dynamics: Volume III (Hardcover)
Bradley Foster
R2,994 Discovery Miles 29 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Fluid Dynamics: Volume II (Hardcover): Bradley Foster Fluid Dynamics: Volume II (Hardcover)
Bradley Foster
R2,994 Discovery Miles 29 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Wedding Dress across Cultures (Paperback, New): Helen Bradley Foster, Donald Clay Johnson Wedding Dress across Cultures (Paperback, New)
Helen Bradley Foster, Donald Clay Johnson
R1,170 Discovery Miles 11 700 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Although the Victorian white wedding dominates western bridal dress and large portions of former colonial empires, marriage rituals vary significantly throughout the world. The Japanese, for instance, combine both traditional ceremonies with receptions utilizing western approaches to dress. In the Andes the bride will personally create a multi-layered dress to showcase her weaving skills. Berber brides in Morocco wear binding clothing that covers their faces, a notable contrast to Canadian prairie-province brides whose stylized gowns individualize and enhance body shape. This engaging book examines the evolution and ritual functions of wedding attire within the context of particular cultures. It raises questions as to the relationship between contemporary wedding attire and traditional values. It discusses the changes international migrations have had upon the wedding dress of several ethnic groups. It provides insights into numerous societal relationships to weddings, such as the ban on bridal-produced embroidery in dowries in India, the challenges individual values have to larger societal ones in themed weddings, and the relationship between the return to pre-western attire and identity politics. Exploring these issues, the authors provide unusual insights into the centrality of dress in shaping individual identity as well as its importance in reflecting cultural values and ideals.

New Raiments of Self - African American Clothing in the Antebellum South (Hardcover, First): Helen Bradley Foster New Raiments of Self - African American Clothing in the Antebellum South (Hardcover, First)
Helen Bradley Foster
R4,381 Discovery Miles 43 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the clothing worn by African Americans in the southern United States during the thirty years before the American Civil War. Drawing on a wide range of sources, most notably oral narratives recorded in the 1930s, this rich account shows that African Americans demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the role clothing played in demarcating age, sex, status, work, recreation, as well as special secular and sacred events. Testimonies offer proof of African Americans' vast technical skills in producing cloth and clothing, which served both as a fundamental reflection of the peoples' Afrocentric craftsmanship and aesthetic sensibilities, and as a reaction to their particular place in American society. Previous work on clothing in this period has tended to focus on white viewpoints, and as a consequence the dress worn by the enslaved has generally been seen as a static standard imposed by white overlords. This excellent study departs from conventional interpretations to show that the clothing of the enslaved changed over time, served multiple functions and represented customs and attitudes which evolved distinctly from within African American communities. In short, it represents a vital contribution to African American studies, as well as to dress and textile history, and cultural and folklore studies.

New Raiments of Self - African American Clothing in the Antebellum South (Paperback): Helen Bradley Foster New Raiments of Self - African American Clothing in the Antebellum South (Paperback)
Helen Bradley Foster
R1,424 Discovery Miles 14 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the clothing worn by African Americans in the southern United States during the thirty years before the American Civil War. Drawing on a wide range of sources, most notably oral narratives recorded in the 1930s, this rich account shows that African Americans demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the role clothing played in demarcating age, sex, status, work, recreation, as well as special secular and sacred events. Testimonies offer proof of African Americans' vast technical skills in producing cloth and clothing, which served both as a fundamental reflection of the peoples' Afrocentric craftsmanship and aesthetic sensibilities, and as a reaction to their particular place in American society. Previous work on clothing in this period has tended to focus on white viewpoints, and as a consequence the dress worn by the enslaved has generally been seen as a static standard imposed by white overlords. This excellent study departs from conventional interpretations to show that the clothing of the enslaved changed over time, served multiple functions and represented customs and attitudes which evolved distinctly from within African American communities. In short, it represents a vital contribution to African American studies, as well as to dress and textile history, and cultural and folklore studies.

Dress Sense - Emotional and Sensory Experiences of the Body and Clothes (Paperback): Donald Clay Johnson, Helen Bradley Foster Dress Sense - Emotional and Sensory Experiences of the Body and Clothes (Paperback)
Donald Clay Johnson, Helen Bradley Foster
R1,285 Discovery Miles 12 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dress Sense explores the importance of the senses and emotions in the way people dress, and how they attach value and significance to clothing. Inspired by the work of Joanne B. Eicher, contributors offer different multi-disciplinary perspectives on this key and unexplored topic in dress and sensory anthropology. The essays present historical, contemporary and global views, from British imperial dress in India, to revolutionary Socialist dress. Issues of body and identity are brought to the fore in the sexual power of Ghanian women's waistbeads, the way cross-dressers feel about their clothing, and how the latest three-dimensional body-scanning technology affects people's perception of themselves and their bodies. For students and researchers of dress and anthropology, Dress Sense will be invaluable in understanding the cross-cultural, emotional and sensual experience of dress and clothing.

Exile [Dramatized Adaptation] (MP3 format, CD, Adapted ed.): Lisa M Bradley Exile [Dramatized Adaptation] (MP3 format, CD, Adapted ed.)
Lisa M Bradley; Read by Tia Shearer Basset, Bradley Foster Smith, Danny Gavigan, Dylan Lynch, …
R617 R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Save R136 (22%) Out of stock
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