"This book is an exciting study of clothing as a complex cultural expression. The author analyses contemporary social meanings found in the symbols of dress and shows the way groups and individuals use the symbols like a language to reveal or conceal significant aspects of their personal identities."
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Nancy Micklewright
Notes
Gift of Nancy Micklewright, July 2025.
Lexicon
Search Terms
clothing and dress--egypt, costume--egypt
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Book
Book Details
Author
Andrea B. Rugh
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Place Published
City
Syracuse, NY
Date Published
1986
ISBN
0815623682
Notes
Length: 185
General Notes
Note Type
Contents
Note
Reveal and conceal -- Folk dress -- Geographical understandings in folk dress -- The Nile valley and oases -- Desert and coastal dwellers -- Presentation of self -- Religion and dress -- The dialectic of dress in space and time.
