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Lädt ... Dirt, Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body's Surfacevon Adeline Masquelier
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""A magnificent volume! It offers brand new perspectives on body politics and identity or subjectivity formation in the post-colonial world."" Dorothy Ko, Barnard College While there is widespread interest in dress and hygiene as vehicles of cultural, moral, and political value, little scholarly attention has been paid to cross-cultural understandings of dirt and undress, despite their equally important role in the fashioning of identity and difference. The essays in this absorbing and thought Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Review: I am going to do something here that I pretty much never do: stop reading a book without finishing it. I am a compulsive finisher, even of books I'm not particularly enjoying, but there are rare occasions when I make an exception, and this book is going to be one of them. This is not at all a reflection of the quality of the book; I'm sure it's fine, although I am not really a qualified judge. It's just that this book is way, way over my head; it's addressed to an academic audience at a level that my two-courses-shy-of-an-anthropology-major-but-that-was-a-few-years-ago self just can't match. The introduction almost broke me, and while the essay-and-a-half I read were better, they were still a little too abstruse for me. In the future, I think my anthropology reading is going to have to be consigned to works that are more descriptive than analytical: more ethnographies geared towards the layperson and fewer critical/academic essays for the professional.
Recommendation: The topic is generally interesting, but this book is not really accessible to anyone without specialized knowledge in the field.