Bibliography of Sources
on Dress and Ornamentation
Compiled by
Tracy Pintchman
Many thanks
to all who responded to my call for sources addressing religious/cultural
meanings of dress and ornamentation in India.
Here is the list of sources.
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_The Sari_ (no
other bibliographic information given--it is a new book)
Emma Tarlo, _Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in
India_ (Univ of Chicago, 1996).
Robert Hardgrave, "The Breast Cloth
Controversy," (Indian Economic and Social History Review, 1968, 5,
no. 2)' also _The Nadars of Tamil Nadu_ (UC Berkeley: 1969).
Dick Kooiman, _Conversion and Social Equality in
India_ (Manohar, Delhi: 1989)
Cohn, Bernard. _Colonialism
and its Forms of Knowledge_ (has an essay on clothing)
Leslie, Julia. 1992.
'The Significance of Dress for the Orthodox Hindu Woman.'
In _Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning in Cultural Contexts_, ed.
Ruth Barnes and Joanne B. Eicher. Oxford:
Berg Publishers.
Thompson, Julia J.
1997. "Unmasking
Culture: Women and Beauty Salons in Kathmandu, Nepal." PhD Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
Eliza Kent, _Converting Women_ (has a chapter on the
religious significance of dress mostly among Indian Christian women)
_Hair: its power and meaning in Asian cultures_,
edited by Alf Hiltebeitel and Barbara D. Miller; foreword by Gananath
Obeyesekere.
Revised: June 28, 2004
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