The Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas
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x, 276pp, central photographic plate section, in-text photographs; mainly black and white. Laminated printed light card covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 12mo.Examines how the politics of dress has been incorporated in constructions of nationhood in both Asia and the Americas, and reveals how politicians and political regimes manipulate sumptuary practices in order to create national identities, to legitimise hierarchies of power or to build personal political identities.
