Clothes and the Body

The article “Clothes and the Body in the International Realm: A Change of Perspective” is published in German. It is about different ideas about body and clothes depending on culture and historical period. Two examples are presented in order to provoke thoughts about how we see and judge the look of others. In order to understand body and fashion in different parts of the world we have to look at socio cultural and economic backgrounds.

Published online:

Huse, Birgitta: Kleidung und Körper international: Ein Perspektivenwechsel. In: www.journal-ethnologie.de, 03/2006, Sonderausgabe zur Ausstellung „Hautzeichen – Körperbilder“ vom 29.04.06 – 09.09.07 Hg. Museum der Kulturen der Welt, Frankfurt/Main.

http://www.journal-ethnologie.de/Deutsch/Schwerpunktthemen/Schwerpunktthemen_2006/Hautzeichen_-_Koerperbilder/Kleidung_und_Koerper_international:_Ein_Perspektivenwechsel/index.phtml

Title translation:

Huse, Birgitta (2006) “Clothes and the Body in the International Realm: A Change of Perspective” in www.journal-ethnologie.de, 03/2006, special edition accompanying the exhibition Signs of skin – Pictures of the body, 29.04.06 – 09.09.07 (Museum of the Cultures of the World: Frankfurt/Main)