Kimono (2001)
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Table of contents
Table of contents
Preface – Paul van Riel i
Introduction – Liza Dalby 8
Festivals 14
En route 30
Tradition 44
Commerce 58
Geisha/maiko 82
Men 98
Kabuki 108
Work 116
Footwear 132
Biography – Paul van Riel 143
Acknowledgements 143
About the author
About the author
Liza Dalby is an anthropologist specializing in Japanese culture. As the only Westerner to have become a geisha, which she did as research for her Ph.D. and her books Geisha and Kimono, she was a consultant for Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and three children.
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Book Reviews
Book Reviews
Petkova, Galia T. “Liza Crihfield Dalby, Kimono: Fashioning Culture ”. Material Culture Review 56.1 (2002). https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MCR/article/view/17949.
Rodríguez, Amaury García. Estudios De Asia y Africa, vol. 37, no. 2 (118), 2002, pp. 402–404. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40313700. Accessed 12 Jan. 2020.