Kimono: Fashioning Culture

Type

Book

Authors

Liza Crihfield Dalby

ISBN 10

0295981555

ISBN 13

9780295981550

Tags

Japan, culture, Fashion, Beauty, Grooming, & Style, Customs & Traditions, Social Sciences

Description

Dalby may be best known as the American anthropologist who spent a year as a geisha in Japan, an experience she wrote about in her 1983 book Geisha . This paper reprint of a 1993 original actually grew out of a chapter in Geisha and explores the history and cultural meanings embedded in the national costume of Japan. Beautifully illustrated in b&w and some color, the work is part fashion history and part social analysis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - from Amzon

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