Dressing the Colonised Body
Language: English
Published by Orient BlackSwan, 2003
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pp. [v] + 157 Illus., Map.
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- Title
- Dressing the Colonised Body
- Author
- Wickramasinghe Nira
- Publisher
- Orient BlackSwan
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 8125024794
- ISBN 13
- 9788125024798
This book explores popular, political and symbolic meanings assignes to dress in a variety of colonial contexts in Sri Lanka; thus is focuses politics of nationalism and identity under late colonialism. Well researched and highly creative, this book is an important addition to the growing literature on the social history of South Asia.
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About the Author
Nira Wickramasinghe obtained her PhD in History from Oxford. She has been a Fellow at the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland and Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sciales, Paris.
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