The anthropology of dress and fashion : a reader

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

Subject:

Clothing and dress - Social aspects
Fashion - Social aspects
Material culture

Contributor:

Luvaas, Brent Adam, editor
Eicher, Joanne Bubolz, editor

ISBN:

9781474282567, 1474282563, 9781474282581, and 147428258X

Description:

vii, 434 pages ; 25 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Part 1: Classic works in the anthropology of dress and fashion. The principle of order in civilization as exemplified by changes in fashion -- Customs and beliefs : ceremonial -- Dress -- Fashion -- Dress : its origins, forms, and psychology, with special emphasis on the sexual psychology -- Part 2: Theorizing dress and fashion. Fashion -v- anti-fashion -- The social skin -- Clothing as language : an object lesson in the study of the expressive properties of material culture -- Definition and classification of dress : implications for analysis of gender roles -- The antisocial skin : structure, resistance, and "modern primitive" adornment in the United States -- Style and ontology -- Part 3: Material culture. The other half : the material culture of new fibres -- Cloth and clothing -- Jeanealogies : materiality and the (im)permanence of relationships and intimacy -- Wild silk textiles of the Dogon of Mali : the production, material efficacy, and cultural significance of sheen -- Clothing sociality : materiality and the everyday among the Kuna of Panama -- Part 4: Dressing the body in culture. Kalabari cut-thread and pulled-thread cloth -- Cloth that does not die : the meaning of cloth in Bùnú social life -- The political economy of elegance : an African cult of beauty -- The predicament of dress : polyvalency and the ironies of cultural identity -- Body talk : revelations of self and body in contemporary strip clubs -- Part 5: Dressing the colony, fashioning the nation. Dressing for dinner in the bush : rituals of self-definition and British imperial authority -- Fashioning the colonial subject -- The ao dai goes global : how international influences and female entrepreneurs have shaped Vietnam's "national costume" -- Dress for sukses : fashioning femininity and nationality in urban Indonesia -- "Doing" Danish fashion : on national identity and design practices of a small Danish fashion company -- Part 6: Clothing, class, and competing cosmopolitans. Fashion, anti-fashion, and heteroglossia in urban Senegal -- Dressed to "shine" : work, leisure, and style in Malandi, Kenya -- Fashionable Muslims : notions of self, religion, and society in San'a -- Landscapes of attraction and rejections : South Asian aesthetics in Islamic fashion in London -- Forging connections, performing distinctions : youth, dress, and consumption in Niger -- Fashionably modest or modestly unfashionable? -- Part 7: Making global fashion. The globalization of Asian dress : re-orienting fashion or re-orientalizing Asia? -- Haute couture in Tehran : two faces of an emerging fashion scene -- Recasting fashion image production : an ethnographic and practice-based approach to investigating bodies as media -- Ethnographic entanglements : memory and narrative in the global fashion industry -- Making clothes for international markets : a clothing perspective on globalization -- In Patagonia (clothing) : a complicated greenness -- Part 8: The afterlives of dress and fashion. Other people's clothes? The international second-hand clothing trade and dress practices in Zambia -- Making new vintage jeans in Japan : relocating authenticity -- Fake brands -- On cutting and pasting : the art and politics of DIY streetwear

Summary:

"Anthropologists have examined how diverse human populations modify and dress their bodies since the earliest days of the discipline. The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader is the first authoritative anthology of the seminal writings of anthropologists studying clothing and fashion. From classic ethnographies of dress to cutting-edge contemporary research tracing the global circulation of clothing today, this comprehensive volume maps out this vibrant field of study's shifting preoccupations, theoretical innovations, and traditional and experimental methodologies. Comprised of over 40 curated extracts from the work of leading international scholars from Jonathan Friedman to Katherine Frank, the reader is divided into themed sections, each with an introduction and guide to further reading. With each extract introduced and contextualised, the reader will be an essential resource for students and scholars of fashion studies, social and cultural anthropology, material culture, sociology and related fields"-- Provided by publisher

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

GT525 .A56 2019

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