Clothing the Pacific

Book

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BLUE: The TATTER Textile Library

Name/Title

Clothing the Pacific

Entry/Object ID

GT1597.C56

Description

"Clothing the Pacific provides insights into the shifting relationship between cloth and social imagination. By tracing the diverse responses to the imposition of dress upon Pacific Islanders, this book profoundly challenges Western assumptions about the place of cloth in culture." -- BOOK JACKET

Collection

Carol Westfall Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

clothing and dress--oceania, clothing and dress--polynesia

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Book

Book Details

Author

Chloë Colchester

Publisher

Berg

Place Published

City

Oxford, New York, NY

Date Published

2003

Call No.

GT1597.C56

ISBN

1859736718, 9781859736715

LCCN

2008357052

Notes

Length: 215

General Notes

Note Type

Contents

Note

Introduction / Chloe Colchester -- The Gods Stripped Bare / Alain Babadzan -- On Cloth, Gifts and Nudity: Regarding some European Misunderstandings during Early Encounters in Polynesia / Serge Tcherkezoff -- The Case of the Misplaced Ponchos: Speculations Concerning the History of Cloth in Polynesia / Nicholas Thomas -- The Poncho and the Quilt: Material Christianity in the Cook Islands / Susanne Kuchler -- Gender, Status and Introduced Clothing in Vanuatu / Lissant Bolton -- God's Kingdom in Auckland: Tongan Christian Dress and the Expression of Duty / Ping-Ann Addo -- T-Shirts, Translation and Humour: On the Nature of Wearer-Perceiver Relationships in South Auckland / Chloe Colchester -- Getting Specific: Pacific Fashion Activism in Auckland during the 1990s / Rosanne Raymond.