Ethnic Dress in the United States (eBook)

A Cultural Encyclopedia

Annette Lynch, Mitchell D. Strauss (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2014
1 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
979-8-216-22300-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The clothes we wear tell stories about us-and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.The clothing artifacts documented here have been or are now regularly worn by Americans as everyday clothing, fashion, ethnic or religious identifiers, or style statements. They embody the cultural history of the United States and its peoples, from Native Americans, white Anglo colonists, and forcibly relocated black slaves to the influx of immigrants from around the world. Entries consider how dress items may serve as symbolic linkages to home country and family or worn as visible forms of opposition to dominant cultural norms. Taken together, they offer insight into the ethnic-based core ideologies, myths, and cultural codes that have played a role in the formation and continued story of the United States.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.10.2014
• Co-Autor: Jennifer Daley, Tameka N. Ellington, Sandra Lee Evenson, Marie-Claire Eylott, Irene M. Foster, Arianna E. Funk, Blaire O. Gagnon, Adam Geczy, Karen J. Gilmer, Priscilla N. Gitimu, Linda Arthur Bradley, Rebecca W. Greer, Gowri Betrabet Gulwadi, Jennifer Van Haaften, Silke Hagen-Jurkowitsch, Laura McLaws Helms, Ellen Hlozan, Rogelia Lily Ibarra, Rebecca Nelson Jacobs, Tracy Jenkins, Michelle Jones, Naomi Braithwaite, Helen Koo, Abby Lillethun, Luanne Mayorga, Ellen C. McKinney, Marcella Milio, Aprina Murwanti, Susan Neill, Virginia M. Noon, Anupama Pasricha, Victoria Pass, Steeve O. Buckridge, Juliette Peers, Lauren Downing Peters, Irina Zhoukova Petrova, Harini Ramaswamy, Helen Ritchie, Jennifer Rothrock, Mary Ruppert-Stroescu, Jessica Schwartz, Erica Suzanne Scott, Wendy Rosie Scott, Laura L. Camerlengo, Sabrina Skerston, Toby Slade, Celia Stall-Meadows, Susan M. Strawn, Jessica Strubel, Caitlin Tracey-Miller, Rebecca Vang, Laura Van Waardhuizen, Joan Webster-Vore, Linda Welters, Carol Ann Colburn, Juanjuan Wu, Cassidy Zachary, Vishna Collins, Jennifer Craik, Jamie R. Cupit
• Vorwort: Joanne B. Eicher
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-13: 979-8-216-22300-9 / 9798216223009