Part 1. Classic works in the anthropology of dress and fashion : The principle of order in civilization as exemplified by changes in fashion / Alfred L. Kroeber -- Customs and beliefs: ceremonial / Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown -- Dress / Ruth Benedict -- Fashion / Edward Sapir -- Dress: its origins, forms, and psychology, with special emphasis on the sexual psychology / Ernest Crawley -- Part 2. Theorizing dress and fashion : Fashion -v- anti-fashion / Ted Polhemus -- The social skin / Terence S. Turner -- Clothing as language: an object lesson in the study of the expressive properties of material culture / Grant McCracken -- Definition and classification of dress: implications for analysis of gender roles / Joanne B. Eicher and Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins -- The antisocial skin: structure, resistance, and "modern primitive" adornment in the United States / Daniel Rosenblatt -- Style and ontology / Daniel Miller -- Part 3. Material culture : The other half: the material culture of new fibres / Kaori O'Connor -- Cloth and clothing / Jane Scheider -- Jeanealogies: materiality and the (im)permanence of relationships and intimacy / Sophie Woodward -- Wild silk textiles of the Dogon of Mali: the production, material efficacy, and cultural significance of sheen / Lawrence Douny -- Clothing sociality: materiality and the everyday among the Kuna of Panama / Margherita Margiotti -- Part 4. Dressing the body in culture : Kalabari cut-thread and pulled-thread cloth / Tonye Victor Erekosima and Joanne B. Eicher -- Cloth that does not die: the meaning of cloth in Bùnú social life / Elisha P. Renne -- The political economy of elegance: an African cult of beauty / Jonathan Friedman -- The predicament of dress: polyvalency and the ironies of cultural identity / Deborah Durham -- Body talk: revelations of self and body in contemporary strip clubs / Katherine Frank -- Part 5. Dressing the colony, fashioning the nation : Dressing for dinner in the bush: rituals of self-definition and British imperial authority / Helen Callaway -- Fashioning the colonial subject / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff -- The ao dai goes global: how international influences and female entrepreneurs have shaped Vietnam's "national costume" / Ann Marie Leshkowich -- Dress for sukses: fashioning femininity and nationality in urban Indonesia / Carla Jones -- "Doing" Danish fashion: on national identity and design practices of a small Danish fashion company / Marie Riegels Melchior -- Part 6. Clothing, class, and competing cosmopolitans : Fashion, anti-fashion, and heteroglossia in urban Senegal / Deborah Heath -- Dressed to "shine": work, leisure, and style in Malindi, Kenya / Johanna Schoss -- Fashionable Muslims: notions of self, religion, and society in San'a / Annelies Moors -- Landscapes of attraction and rejections: South Asian aesthetics in Islamic fashion in London / Emma Tarlo -- Forging connections, performing distinctions: youth, dress, and consumption in Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- Fashionably modest or modestly unfashionable? / Eric Silverman -- Part 7. Making global fashion : The globalization of Asian dress: re-orienting fashion or re-orientalizing Asia? / Carla Jones and Ann Marie Leshkowich -- Haute couture in Tehran: two faces of an emerging fashion scene / Alexandru Balasecu -- Recasting fashion image production: an ethnographic and practice-based approach to investigating bodies as media / Stephanie Sadre-Orafai -- Ethnographic entanglements: memory and narrative in the global fashion industry / Christina H. Moon -- Making clothes for international markets: a clothing perspective on globalization / Jianhua Zhao -- In Patagonia (clothing): a complicated greenness / Sharon J. Hepburn -- Part 8. The afterlives of dress and fashion : Other people's clothes? The international second-hand clothing trade and dress practices in Zambia : Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Making new vintage jeans in Japan: relocating authenticity / Philomena Keet -- Fake brands / Magdalena Craciun -- On cutting and pasting: the art and politics of DIY streetwear / Brent Luvaas.
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.