Clothing as material culture

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Name/Title

Clothing as material culture

Entry/Object ID

GT525.K83

Description

In recent years, there has been a spate of books theorizing fashion. Few, however, take on board the artefactual nature of cloth. In contrast, costume historians have looked closely at garments, but have shown less concern with how clothing is informed by social structures.

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Search Terms

clothing and dress, material culture

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Category

Book

Book Details

Author

Susanne Küchler, Daniel Miller

Publisher

Berg

Place Published

City

Oxford

Date Published

2005

Call No.

GT525.K83

ISBN

1845200675, 9781845200671

LCCN

2004030414

Notes

Length: 288

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Contents

Note

Introduction / Daniel Miller -- Looking good: feeling right - aesthetics of the self / Sophie Woodward -- The other half: the material culture of new fibres / Kaori O'Connor -- Aesthetics, ethics and politics of the Turkish headscarf / Özlem Sandkc and Güliz Ger -- Cloth that lies: the secrets of recycling in India / Lucy Norris -- From thrift to fashion: materiality and aesthetics in dress practices in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Nga aho tipuna (ancestral threads): Maori cloaks from New Zealand / Amiria Henare -- Relative imagery: patterns of response to the revival of archaic chiefly dress in Fiji / Chloë Colchester -- Pattern, efficacy and enterprise: on the fabrication of connections in Melanesia / Graeme Were -- Why are there quilts in Polynesia? / Susanne Küchler.