Languages of dress in the Middle East /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lindisfarne, Nancy, 1944-, Ingham, Bruce
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Richmond, Surrey : Curzon, in association with the Centre of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS, 1997.
Subjects:	Clothing and dress > Middle East. Fashion > Middle East. Clothing and dress > Symbolic aspects > Middle East. Middle East > Social life and customs. Costume > Middle East > History.

Table of Contents:

Approaches to the study of dress in the Middle East / Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper, Bruce Ingham
Men's dress in the Arabian Peninsula: historical and present perspectives / Bruce Ingham
Changing the habits of a lifetime: the adaptation of Hejazi dress to the new social order / Mai Yamani
The dress of the Shahsevan tribespeople of Iranian Azerbaijan / Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper
Felt capes and masks of the Caucasus / Robert Chenciner
Male dress in the Caucasus, with special reference to Abkhazia and Georgia / George Hewitt, Zaira Khiba
Fashions and styles: Maltese women's headdress / Dionisius Agius
The Burqa face cover: an aspect of dress in southeastern Arabia / Dawn Chatty
Faith and fashion in Turkey / John Norton
Politics of dress: the dress reform laws of 1920-1930s Iran / Patricia L. Baker.