The Fabrics of Culture : The Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment

No detailed description available for'The fabrics of culture'. General Editor’s Preface Preface Introduction SECTION ONE: CLOTHING, CULTURE, AND COMMUNICATION The Language of Personal Adornment Uncovering the Secret Vice: Toward an Anthropology of Clothing and Adornment The Very Human Arts of Transformation You Dance What You Wear, and You Wear Your Cultural Values SECTION TWO: SIGNS, SYMBOLS, AND THE SOCIAL ORDER Living Art Among the Samburu Beads and Personal Adornment Symbol and Identification in North American Indian Clothing Badaga Apparel: Protection and Symbol SECTION THREE: MAN, MASKS, AND MORALS Analysis of an African Masked Parade Pageantry and Power in Yoruba Costuming Mende Secret Societies and their Costumed Spirits Hortelanos: An Investigation into a Masking Tradition in a Changing Society SECTION FOUR: THE CLOTH OF CULTURE CHANGE Siona Clothing and Adornment, or, You Are What You Wear Sexual Differentiation and Acculturation in Potawatomi Costume Yoruba Dress in Five Generations of a Lagos Family Social Hair: Tradition and Change in Yoruba Hairstyles in Southwestern Nigeria Clothing and Power Abuse The Garments of the Present-Day Azerbaidzhan Population: Traditional and Modern Elements The Social Symbolism of Women’s Dress SECTION FIVE: TECHNOLOGY AND TEXTILES Tablet Weaving by the Jews of San’a (Yemen) Sierra Leone Resist-Dyed Textiles The History and Development of Wax-Printed Textiles Intended for West Africa and Zaire Biographical Notes Index of Names Index of Subjects

This book is about what the 'lack' of agreement indicates about the structure of language. Rather than assuming that mistakes occur in languages, disagreement can be seen as an indication of a certain structural relationship. In a Minimalist framework, the partial agreement or complete lack of agreement is determined by when checking of case and agreement takes place and with what nominal element. Earlier work has shown that there may be variation regarding the number of functional categories a language activates. If that account is correct, languages with fewer functional categories (Dutch and Old English) will also have fewer specifiers and therefore less Spec-Head agreement. In these cases, government will play a role in the checking of case and agreement. There are, however, other reasons for the 'breakdown'. For instance, expletives play a major role and they may only be specified for some features (number or person) and when they agree with the verb, the 'real' subject does not. Two additional reasons are discussed: the impact from grammaticalization and from asymmetrical (e.g. coordinate) structures. The focus is on Modern, Old and Middle English and Dutch, but other Germanic languages (German, Swedish, Yiddish), Romance languages (Catalan, French, Italian, Spanish), Arabic, Chamorro, Hebrew, Hopi, Kirundi, O'odham, Navajo, and Urdu/Hindi are discussed as well.