Costume: Performing Identities Through Dress

by Pravina Shukla

Book Overview

What does it mean to people around the world to put on costumes to celebrate their heritage, reenact historic events, assume a role on stage, or participate in Halloween or Carnival? Self-consciously set apart from everyday dress, costume marks the divide between ordinary and extraordinary settings and enables the wearer to project a different self or special identity. Pravina Shukla offers richly detailed case studies from the United States, Brazil,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253015774
• ISBN13: 9780253015778
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher