'This exemplary ethnography, a fascinating examination of the choices that people in one indigenous society make in deciding when and how to dress, illuminates the nature of cultural displays and cross-cultural encounters as well as the expectations, desires, and illusions that anthropologists, tourists, and others bring to them. Through a highly creative combination of sidebars, drawings, personal history, and lucid ... Read moreprose, the author makes both theory and lived experience vivid and accessible to readers of all sorts. Anthropology comes alive in this book.' James Howe, Professor of Anthropology (Emeritus), MIT 'Only a perceptive imp with a taste for visual teasing would dare strip away the fluffy folds of anthropological convention to lay bare the abused body of exoticism and reveal complex qualities we have rarely hitherto been allowed to see in it. Theodossopoulos is that imp.' Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
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