Consuming fashion : adorning the transnational body
Clothing the body is a complicated act of daily existence. Drawing on ethnographic knowledge to connect theory and practice, this text reveals links between material culture, social and economic forces and personal performance to explain clothing choices through time and across cultures.
History
xvii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9781859739648, 9781859739693, 1859739644, 1859739695
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Sensible shoes / Anne Brydon
The cultural and historical contexts of fashion / Aubrey Cannon
Transformations in the use of traditional textiles of Ngada (Western Flores, Eastern Indonesia): commercialization, fashion and ethnicity / Andrea K. Molnar
Transnational commodity flows and the global phenomenon of the brand / Ian Skoggard
Fashioning the body in post-Mao China / Xiaoping Li
The body of art and the mantle of authority / Gordon Roe
Breaking habits: gender, class and the sacred in the dress of women religious / Rebecca Sullivan
A la mode: fashioning gay community in Montreal / Ross Higgins
A tale of three Louis: ambiguity, masculinity and the bowtie / Rob Shields
That barbie-doll look: a psychoanalysis / Jeanne Randolph
"Papers originated as conference presentations at the Canadian Anthropology Society meetings held in Montreal in 1995"--Acknowledgements