The book entitled Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia contains a chapter entitled 'Headdress and Hijab: Bunad in Multicultural Norway' written by Camilla Rossing. The book has received awards, and is one of only a few sources of information on the bunad and the history of the bunad in English. Costume traditions in Norway, Sweden and Sápmi and their evolution are explored in a collection of articles.
The book came about in connection with the exhibition with the same name which until recently was staged at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe in the United States. You can read more about the exhibition here.
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From the exhibition Dressing with Purpose at the Museum of International Folk Art. Photo: Camilla Rossing.
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From the exhibition Dressing with Purpose at the Museum of International Folk Art. Photo: Camilla Rossing.
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From the exhibition Dressing with Purpose at the Museum of International Folk Art. Photo: Camilla Rossing.
Dressing with Purpose can be ordered through several international booksellers. In Norway it can be ordered through Adlibris online bookstore. It is also on sale in the Valdres Folk Museum's bookshop and can be ordered directly from us while stocks last by sending an email to post@bunadogfolkedrakt.no.
The book is edited by Carrie Hertz and is published by Indiana University Press.
Read the publisher's description of the book here.