Seams of Change: Clothing and the Care of the Self in late 19th and 20th century Cambodia

by Chea Narin

The interviews of elderly Cambodians about their everyday lives and how traditions and modernity would combine.

 
Format
hardback
Publisher
Reyum Publishing
Edition
First edition. #36 at Angkor Database Library.
Published
December 2003
Author
Chea Narin
Pages
295
ISBN
1-58886-046-9
Languages
English, Khmer

Seams of Change is a collection of interviews with forty Cambodian women and men whose recollections stretch nearly a century, about everyday life in the late 19th till the 20th century that includes clothes, sewing methods, patterns and tools, hair and jewelry styles, and washing products for clothes and self care.

Tags: clothing, Cambodian daily life, selfcare, jewelry

About the Author

Chea Narin