Liza Dalby

Liza Crihfield Dalby is an American anthropologist and novelist specializing in Japanese culture. Her book Geisha (filmed as American Geisha ) is based on her experience as a novice geisha in Japan. Her other books include Kimono: Fashioning Culture, a critique of the symbolism and cultural meaning of kimono in Japanese culture; and a novel The Tale of Murasaki, the fictionalized account of the life of Murasaki Shikibu.

She is a graduate of Swarthmore and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Works

Dalby, Liza Crihfield (1993). Kimono: fashioning culture. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300056397.

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