The politics of dress in Asia and the Americas / 
edited by Mina Roces and Louise Edwards. 
 - ix, 276 páginas, [12] hojas de láminas :  ilustraciones (algunas a color) 
 - The Sussex library of Asian studies .
<br/><br/>Incluye bibliografía. 
<br/><br/>Trans-national flows and the politics of dress in Asia and the Americas / Louise Edwards and Mina Roces -- Gender, nation and the politics of dress in twentieth-century Philippines / Mina Roces -- Dressing for power : scholars´ robes, school uniforms and military attire in China / Louise Edwards -- Refashioning civilization : dress and bodily practice in Thai nation-building / Maurizio Peleggi -- Gender, citizenship and dress in modernizing Japan / Barbara Molony -- Identity, nation and Islam : a dialogue about men´s and women´s dress in Indonesia / Jean Gelman Taylor -- ´Dressed in a little brief authority´ : clothing the body politic in Burma / Penny Edwards -- Power dressing on the prairies : the grammar of Blackfoot leadership dress 1750-1930 / Blanca Tovias -- Nationalism and national dress in Spanish America / Rebecca Earle -- Refashioning the Inca : costume, political power and identity in late Bourbon Peru / David Cahill -- Wigs, weapons, tattoos and shoes : getting dressed in colonial Amazonia and Brazil / Barbara A. Sommer -- Fabricating specimen citizens : nation building in nineteenth-century Mexico / Magali M. Carrera -- Urban expressions of solidarity : fashioning citizenship in Argentina / Regina A. Root. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1845191633 9781845191634 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Prendas de vestir.--Aspectos políticos--América.<br/>Prendas de vestir.--Aspectos políticos--Asia.<br/>Prendas de vestir.--Aspectos sociales--América.<br/>Prendas de vestir.--Aspectos sociales--Asia.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>391.009  / P769 2009