How transgressions of the body's surface--dirt and undress in many forms--take on cultural, political, and moral value.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Dirt, Undress, and Difference: An Introduction Adeline
Masquelier
1. The Naked and the Nude: Historically Multiple Meanings of Oto
(Undress) in Southeastern Nigeria Misty L. Bastian
2. Breasts, (Un)Dress, and Modernist Desires in the
Balinese-Tourist Encounter Margaret Wiener
3. Body Talk: Revelations of Self and Body in Contemporary Strip
Clubs Katherine Frank
4. The Naked Spirit: Disrobing, Deviance, and Dissent in Bori
Possession Adeline Masquelier
5. Japanese Bodies and Western Ways of Seeing in the Late
Nineteenth Century Satsuki Kawano
6. Purity and Conquest in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Janice Boddy
7. Did You Bathe This Morning? Baths and Morality in Botswana
Deborah Durham
8. The Politics of Dirt and Gender: Body Techniques in Bengali
India Sarah Lamb
9. Corrupted Alterities: Body Politics in the Time of the Iranian
Diaspora Janet Bauer
List of Contributors
Index
Adeline Masquelier is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University and author of Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger.
"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
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