Folk dress in Europe and Anatolia beliefs about protection and fertility /
Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2000. Relationships between dress and the body have existed in European and Anatolian folk cultures well into the twentieth century. Traditional cultures have long held the belief that certain articles of dress could protect the body from harm by w...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
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1999.
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| Series: | Dress, body, culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface 1 Introduction: Folk Dress, Supernatural Beliefs, and the Body1 (Linda Welters) 2 On the Antiquity of East European Bridal Clothing (E. J. W. Barber) 3 Traditional Turkish Women's Dress: A Source ofC ommon Understandings for Expected Behaviors (Marlene R. Breu) 4 The Peloponnesian Zonari: A Twentieth-century String Skirt (Linda Welters) 5 Gilding the Lily: Dress and Women's Reproductive Role in the Greek Village, 1850-1950 (Linda Welters) 6 Threads of Life: Red Fringes in Macedonian Dress (Vesna Mladenovic) 7 The Curious Tale of the Ultra-long Sleeve (A Eurasian Epic) (E. J. W. Barber) 8 Protection from Harm: The Shawl and Cap in Czech and Slovak Wedding, Birthing and Funerary Rites (Patricia Williams) 9 Living Textile Traditions of the Carpathians (Mary B. Kelly) 10 The Cultural Significance of Belts in Latvian Dress (Linda Welters and ra Kuhn-Bol aitis) 11 To Ward Off Evil: Metal on Norwegian Folk Dress (Laurann Gilbertson) 12 The Dynamic Relationship Between Lithuanian National Costumes and Folk Dress (Ruta Saliklis)
