Linda B Arthur
Biographic Data
| ID | 245615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda B Arthur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda B |
| FAMILY NAME | Arthur |
| SIGNATURE | ARTHUR L B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Aloha Shirt and Ethnicity in Hawai'i
Hawaii's aloha shirt features brightly colored textiles; this article presents the design evolution of these textiles used in the aloha shirt for each decade from its origin in the 1930s to 2000. Based on a study of over 1,000 shirts and textiles, this study shows that Hawaiian prints and the aloha shirt developed as a result of contributions from several, ethnic groups in multiethnic Hawai'i where there is no ethnic majority. Throughout the deca…
Undressing Religion
From Islam to Confucianism to Voodoo, dress plays a pivotal role in religious expression. This book investigates how dress symbolically evidences both religious and social systems across a wide range of cultures - from Africa and South America to Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Caribbean. In some of these cultures, dress is part of a system of social control. Gender issues feature prominently since the control of female sexuality is often of gr…
About Face
About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater. Dorinne Kondo. New York: Routledge, 1997. xiii. 277 pp., figures, references, index.Consuming Fashion: Adorning the Transnational Body. Anne Brydon and Sandra Niessen. eds. London: Berg, 1998. xvii. 196 pp., illustrations, contributor index, index
Religion, Dress and the Body
Religions constrain the bodies of their members through dress. In many cases, dress immediately identifies a member of the community to the outside world and separates them from a society that members believe is threatened by evil forces. Dress identifies the wearer's community to other groups and communities, and may also reflect one's status. Most interestingly, perhaps, dress is a measure of one's level of commitment to the community. While co…
Religion, Dress and the Body
Deviance, Agency, and the Social Control of Women's Bodies in a Mennonite Community
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over eight years, this article uses the metaphor of dress to describe the social control of women's bodies in a conservative Holdeman Mennonite community.' The body was controlled both internally and externally, in terms of emotional expression, diet, sexuality, and especially by dress. As a symbolic marker of group belonging, adherence to a strict dress code was considered a sign of religiosity and was r…
Hawaiian Women and Dress
(1998). Hawaiian Women and Dress: The Holokū as an Expression of Ethnicity. Fashion Theory: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 269-286
Hawaiian Women and Dress
(1998). Hawaiian Women and Dress: The Holokū as an Expression of Ethnicity. Fashion Theory: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 269-286
Deviance, Agency, and the Social Control of Women's Bodies in a Mennonite Community
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over eight years, this article uses the metaphor of dress to describe the social control of women's bodies in a conservative Holdeman Mennonite community.' The body was controlled both internally and externally, in terms of emotional expression, diet, sexuality, and especially by dress. As a symbolic marker of group belonging, adherence to a strict dress code was considered a sign of religiosity and was r…
Hawaiian Women and Dress
(1998). Hawaiian Women and Dress: The Holokū as an Expression of Ethnicity. Fashion Theory: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 269-286
Religion, Dress and the Body
Religions constrain the bodies of their members through dress. In many cases, dress immediately identifies a member of the community to the outside world and separates them from a society that members believe is threatened by evil forces. Dress identifies the wearer's community to other groups and communities, and may also reflect one's status. Most interestingly, perhaps, dress is a measure of one's level of commitment to the community. While co…
Religion, Dress and the Body
Undressing Religion
From Islam to Confucianism to Voodoo, dress plays a pivotal role in religious expression. This book investigates how dress symbolically evidences both religious and social systems across a wide range of cultures - from Africa and South America to Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Caribbean. In some of these cultures, dress is part of a system of social control. Gender issues feature prominently since the control of female sexuality is often of gr…
About Face
About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater. Dorinne Kondo. New York: Routledge, 1997. xiii. 277 pp., figures, references, index.Consuming Fashion: Adorning the Transnational Body. Anne Brydon and Sandra Niessen. eds. London: Berg, 1998. xvii. 196 pp., illustrations, contributor index, index
The Aloha Shirt and Ethnicity in Hawai'i
Hawaii's aloha shirt features brightly colored textiles; this article presents the design evolution of these textiles used in the aloha shirt for each decade from its origin in the 1930s to 2000. Based on a study of over 1,000 shirts and textiles, this study shows that Hawaiian prints and the aloha shirt developed as a result of contributions from several, ethnic groups in multiethnic Hawai'i where there is no ethnic majority. Throughout the deca…
Fashion and Cultural Textiles (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Ethnic group (2 works)