Author: Bruce Ingham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136803173
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Considers how the languages of dress in the region connect with other social practices, and with political and religious conformity in particular. Treating cases as diverse as practices of veiling in Oman and dress reform laws in Turkey, these ethnographic studies extend from Malta to the ME and Caucasus.
Languages of Dress in the Middle East
Author: Bruce Ingham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136803173
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Considers how the languages of dress in the region connect with other social practices, and with political and religious conformity in particular. Treating cases as diverse as practices of veiling in Oman and dress reform laws in Turkey, these ethnographic studies extend from Malta to the ME and Caucasus.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136803173
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Considers how the languages of dress in the region connect with other social practices, and with political and religious conformity in particular. Treating cases as diverse as practices of veiling in Oman and dress reform laws in Turkey, these ethnographic studies extend from Malta to the ME and Caucasus.
Languages of Dress in the Middle East
Author: Bruce Ingham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136803246
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Considers how the languages of dress in the region connect with other social practices, and with political and religious conformity in particular. Treating cases as diverse as practices of veiling in Oman and dress reform laws in Turkey, these ethnographic studies extend from Malta to the ME and Caucasus.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136803246
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Considers how the languages of dress in the region connect with other social practices, and with political and religious conformity in particular. Treating cases as diverse as practices of veiling in Oman and dress reform laws in Turkey, these ethnographic studies extend from Malta to the ME and Caucasus.
Encyclopedia of National Dress [2 volumes]
Author: Jill Condra
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313376379
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
This two-volume set presents information and images of the varied clothing and textiles of cultures around the world, allowing readers to better appreciate the richness and diversity of human culture and history. The contributors to Encyclopedia of National Dress: Traditional Clothing around the World examine clothing that is symbolic of the people who live in regions all over the world, providing a historical and geographic perspective that illustrates how people dress and explains the reasons behind the material, design, and style. The encyclopedia features a preface and introduction to its contents. Each entry in the encyclopedia includes a short historical and geographical background for the topic before discussing the clothing of people in that country or region of the world. This work will be of great interest to high school students researching fashion, fashion history, or history as well as to undergraduate students and general readers interested in anthropology, textiles, fashion, ethnology, history, or ethnic dress.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313376379
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
This two-volume set presents information and images of the varied clothing and textiles of cultures around the world, allowing readers to better appreciate the richness and diversity of human culture and history. The contributors to Encyclopedia of National Dress: Traditional Clothing around the World examine clothing that is symbolic of the people who live in regions all over the world, providing a historical and geographic perspective that illustrates how people dress and explains the reasons behind the material, design, and style. The encyclopedia features a preface and introduction to its contents. Each entry in the encyclopedia includes a short historical and geographical background for the topic before discussing the clothing of people in that country or region of the world. This work will be of great interest to high school students researching fashion, fashion history, or history as well as to undergraduate students and general readers interested in anthropology, textiles, fashion, ethnology, history, or ethnic dress.
Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900436949X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Taking society as its central focus, Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period approaches the region as one of connectivities and fluidity and investigates networks and interregional relations, stratagems adopted to shape society and social resistance to or absorption of change. From tourism to health propaganda, marriage to beauty contest, mass communication to music, this book offers a vibrant and dynamic picture of the region which goes beyond state borders. Contributors are Diana Abbani, Amit Bein, Ebru Boyar, Elizabeth Brownson, Nazan Çiçek, Kate Fleet, Ulrike Freitag, Liat Kozma, Brian L. McLaren and Emilio Spadola.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900436949X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Taking society as its central focus, Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period approaches the region as one of connectivities and fluidity and investigates networks and interregional relations, stratagems adopted to shape society and social resistance to or absorption of change. From tourism to health propaganda, marriage to beauty contest, mass communication to music, this book offers a vibrant and dynamic picture of the region which goes beyond state borders. Contributors are Diana Abbani, Amit Bein, Ebru Boyar, Elizabeth Brownson, Nazan Çiçek, Kate Fleet, Ulrike Freitag, Liat Kozma, Brian L. McLaren and Emilio Spadola.
Language and National Identity in Africa
Author: Andrew Simpson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191536814
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This book focuses on language, culture, and national identity in Africa. Leading specialists examine countries in every part of the continent - Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanbia, South Africa, and the nations of the Horn, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. Each chapter describes and examines the country's linguistic and political history and the relation of its languages to national, ethnic, and cultural identities, and assesses the relative status of majority and minority languages and the role of language in ethnic conflict. Of the book's authors, fifteen are from Africa and seven from Europe and the USA. Jargon-free, fully referenced, and illustrated with seventeen maps, this book will be of value to a wide range of readers in linguistics, politics, history, sociology, and anthropology. It will interest everyone wishing to understand the dynamic interactions between language and politics in Africa, in the past and now.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191536814
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This book focuses on language, culture, and national identity in Africa. Leading specialists examine countries in every part of the continent - Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanbia, South Africa, and the nations of the Horn, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. Each chapter describes and examines the country's linguistic and political history and the relation of its languages to national, ethnic, and cultural identities, and assesses the relative status of majority and minority languages and the role of language in ethnic conflict. Of the book's authors, fifteen are from Africa and seven from Europe and the USA. Jargon-free, fully referenced, and illustrated with seventeen maps, this book will be of value to a wide range of readers in linguistics, politics, history, sociology, and anthropology. It will interest everyone wishing to understand the dynamic interactions between language and politics in Africa, in the past and now.
Ingham of Arabia
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004256199
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Ingham of Arabia is a collection of twelve articles on modern Arabic dialectology contributed by an international collection of colleagues and pupils of Professor Ingham of the London School of Oriental and African Languages on the occasion of his retirement. Half the articles are concerned with Arabic dialects from the areas Prof Ingham spent his academic life researching, principally Arabia and the neighbouring areas: Oman, Jordan, Sinai, the Negev, southern Turkey, Syria. Other articles are concerned with general topics in Arabic dialectology. The book contains a complete bibliography of Professor Ingham's publications.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004256199
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Ingham of Arabia is a collection of twelve articles on modern Arabic dialectology contributed by an international collection of colleagues and pupils of Professor Ingham of the London School of Oriental and African Languages on the occasion of his retirement. Half the articles are concerned with Arabic dialects from the areas Prof Ingham spent his academic life researching, principally Arabia and the neighbouring areas: Oman, Jordan, Sinai, the Negev, southern Turkey, Syria. Other articles are concerned with general topics in Arabic dialectology. The book contains a complete bibliography of Professor Ingham's publications.
Language Endangerment
Author: David Bradley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041139
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Investigates the endangerment of languages and the loss of traditional cultural diversity, and how to respond.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041139
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Investigates the endangerment of languages and the loss of traditional cultural diversity, and how to respond.
The Handbook of the Middle East
Author: Michael Kort
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 0822571439
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Examines the past, present, and future of all the countries in the Middle East, discussing their history and culture.
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 0822571439
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Examines the past, present, and future of all the countries in the Middle East, discussing their history and culture.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture
Author: Gary Hoppenstand
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
An encyclopedia describes all aspects of world culture, broken down into six regional categories, discussing the art, dance, fashion, food, pastimes, periodicals, recreation, and transportation of each region.
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
An encyclopedia describes all aspects of world culture, broken down into six regional categories, discussing the art, dance, fashion, food, pastimes, periodicals, recreation, and transportation of each region.