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How transgressions of the body's surface--dirt and undress in many forms--take on cultural, political, and moral value.

Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments

Dirt, Undress, and Difference: An Introduction Adeline Masquelier
1. The Naked and the Nude: Historically Multiple Meanings of Oto (Undress) in Southeastern Nigeria Misty L. Bastian
2. Breasts, (Un)Dress, and Modernist Desires in the Balinese-Tourist Encounter Margaret Wiener
3. Body Talk: Revelations of Self and Body in Contemporary Strip Clubs Katherine Frank
4. The Naked Spirit: Disrobing, Deviance, and Dissent in Bori Possession Adeline Masquelier
5. Japanese Bodies and Western Ways of Seeing in the Late Nineteenth Century Satsuki Kawano
6. Purity and Conquest in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Janice Boddy
7. Did You Bathe This Morning? Baths and Morality in Botswana Deborah Durham
8. The Politics of Dirt and Gender: Body Techniques in Bengali India Sarah Lamb
9. Corrupted Alterities: Body Politics in the Time of the Iranian Diaspora Janet Bauer

List of Contributors
Index

About the Author

Adeline Masquelier is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University and author of Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger.

Reviews

"A magnificent volume! It offers brand new perspectives on body politics and identity or subjectivity formation in the post-colonial world." --Dorothy Ko, Barnard College