dress in contemporary Egypt
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rugh, Andrea B.
- Creator
- Rodenbeck, Elizabeth > (ill.)
- Creator
- Rugh, William A. > (photogr.)
- Publish Year
- 1986
- Shelfmark
- B5185 - B
- Thesaurus
- kleding, textielkunst, symboliek, antropologie, identiteit, Egypte, 20e eeuw, onderzoek
- Description
- Study of clothing as a complex cultural expression. Over a ten-year periode the author traced patterns of clothing worn by rural migrants, especially women's dress, in a lower classs quarter of Cairo back to their origins in Upper and Lower Egypt. The author analyzes 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 personel identities.