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PART I: THE SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF DRESS Chapter 1: The Classification System of Dress Chapter 2: Dress, Culture, and Society Chapter 3: Records of the Types of Dress Chapter 4: Written Interpretations of Dress PART II: PHYSICAL APPEARANCE, ENVIRONMENT, AND DRESS Chapter 5: Physical Appearance and Dress Chapter 6: Body, Dress, and Environment PART III: SOCIOCULTURAL SYSTEMS OF WORLD CULTURE AND DRESS Chapter 7: Commercial Sociocultural Systems and Dress Chapter 8: Tribal Sociocultural Systems Chapter 9: Imperial Sociocultural Systems and Dress PART IV: ART, AESTHETICS, AND DRESS Chapter 10: The Art of Creating Dress Chapter 11: Ideals for Individual Appearance and the Art of Dress Chapter 12: The Art of Dress: Conformity and Individuality Chapter 13: Dress and the Arts

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This anthropological investigation of dress featuring selected scholarly readings is ideal for courses focused on global perspectives and cultural aspects of dress.

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Joanne B. Eicher is Regents Professor Emerita at University of Minnesota where she taught for nearly 20 years. She is Editor-in-Chief of the ten volume Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (Bloomsbury Academic, 2010), editor of the Dress, Body and Culture book series (Bloomsbury Academic) and has authored many other books on culture, dress and identity. Sandra Lee Evenson is a Professor and Interim Director in the Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Idaho, USA, where she has taught courses on dress and culture and apparel design.

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