The secret life of sarongs: Manggarai textiles as super-skins

Journal of Material Culture

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-46

  Allerton, Catherine ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clothing; Eastern Indonesia; Personhood; Sarongs; Skin; The senses

Indexed keywords

KINSHIP; MATERIAL CULTURE; RELIGION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33947604324     PISSN: 13591835     EISSN: 14603586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359183507074560     Document Type: Article

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