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.

"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

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsDirt, Undress, and Difference: An IntroductionAdeline Masquelier1. The Naked and the Nude: Historically Multiple Meanings of Oto (Undress) in Southeastern NigeriaMisty L. Bastian2. Breasts, (Un)Dress, and Modernist Desires in the Balinese-Tourist EncounterMargaret Wiener3. Body Talk: Revelations of Self and Body in Contemporary Strip ClubsKatherine Frank4. The Naked Spirit: Disrobing, Deviance, and Dissent in Bori PossessionAdeline Masquelier5. Japanese Bodies and Western Ways of Seeing in the Late Nineteenth CenturySatsuki Kawano6. Purity and Conquest in the Anglo-Egyptian SudanJanice Boddy7. Did You Bathe This Morning? Baths and Morality in BotswanaDeborah Durham8. The Politics of Dirt and Gender: Body Techniques in Bengali IndiaSarah Lamb9. Corrupted Alterities: Body Politics in the Time of the Iranian DiasporaJanet BauerList of ContributorsIndex

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.

"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

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsDirt, Undress, and Difference: An IntroductionAdeline Masquelier1. The Naked and the Nude: Historically Multiple Meanings of Oto (Undress) in Southeastern NigeriaMisty L. Bastian2. Breasts, (Un)Dress, and Modernist Desires in the Balinese-Tourist EncounterMargaret Wiener3. Body Talk: Revelations of Self and Body in Contemporary Strip ClubsKatherine Frank4. The Naked Spirit: Disrobing, Deviance, and Dissent in Bori PossessionAdeline Masquelier5. Japanese Bodies and Western Ways of Seeing in the Late Nineteenth CenturySatsuki Kawano6. Purity and Conquest in the Anglo-Egyptian SudanJanice Boddy7. Did You Bathe This Morning? Baths and Morality in BotswanaDeborah Durham8. The Politics of Dirt and Gender: Body Techniques in Bengali IndiaSarah Lamb9. Corrupted Alterities: Body Politics in the Time of the Iranian DiasporaJanet BauerList of ContributorsIndex

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.

"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

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsDirt, Undress, and Difference: An IntroductionAdeline Masquelier1. The Naked and the Nude: Historically Multiple Meanings of Oto (Undress) in Southeastern NigeriaMisty L. Bastian2. Breasts, (Un)Dress, and Modernist Desires in the Balinese-Tourist EncounterMargaret Wiener3. Body Talk: Revelations of Self and Body in Contemporary Strip ClubsKatherine Frank4. The Naked Spirit: Disrobing, Deviance, and Dissent in Bori PossessionAdeline Masquelier5. Japanese Bodies and Western Ways of Seeing in the Late Nineteenth CenturySatsuki Kawano6. Purity and Conquest in the Anglo-Egyptian SudanJanice Boddy7. Did You Bathe This Morning? Baths and Morality in BotswanaDeborah Durham8. The Politics of Dirt and Gender: Body Techniques in Bengali IndiaSarah Lamb9. Corrupted Alterities: Body Politics in the Time of the Iranian DiasporaJanet BauerList of ContributorsIndex