Dress as Social Relations: An Interpretation of Bushman Dress

by Vibeke Maria Viestad

The history of dress in the South African bush

To dress is a uniquely human experience, but practices and meanings of dress vary greatly among people. In a Western cultural tradition, the practice of dressing 'properly' has for centuries distinguished 'civilised' people from 'savages'. Through travel literature and historical ethnographic descriptions of the Bushmen of southern Africa, such perceptions and prejudices have made their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1776141911
• ISBN13: 9781776141913
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Wits University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 9.9"