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Title Statement Clothing as material culture
Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint) BERG , Oxford ; New York : 2005
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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note Introduction / Daniel Miller -- Looking good, feeling right / Sophie Woodward -- The other half / Kaori O'Connor -- Aesthetics, ethics, and politics of the Turkish headscarf / Özlem Sandkc and Güliz Ger -- Cloth that lies / Lucy Norris -- From thrift to fashion / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Nga aho tipuna (ancestral threads) / Amiria Henare -- Relative imagery / Chloë Colchester -- Pattern, efficacy, and enterprise / Graeme Were -- Why are there quilts in Polynesia? / Susanne Küchler.
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ISBN 1-84520-067-5 (pbk.) 1-84520-067-5 1-84520-066-7 (cloth) 1-84520-066-7
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This book puts the material back into clothing. In recent years social scientists have become increasingly interested in theories of fashion, but have rarely directly addressed the material qualities of clothing. By contrast, traditional studies of dress have focused on textiles but often neglect the larger cultural context within which dress becomes consumed as clothing. This book fills a major gap by combining these two 'camps' through an expressly material culture approach to clothing. In sustained case studies, Kchler and Miller argue that cloth and clothing are living, vibrant parts of culture and the body. From the recycling of cloth in Africa and India and the use of pattern in the Pacific, to the history of 'wash and wear' and why women wear the wrong clothes to restaurants in London, this book shows the considerable advantage gained by seamlessly combining material and social aspects of dress and textiles.
Introduction Why are there Quilts in Polynesia? Nga Aho Tipuna (Ancestral Threads): Maori Cloaks from New Zealand Relative Imagery: Patterns of Response to the Revival of Archaic Chiefly Dress in Fiji Pattern, Efficacy And Enterprise: On the Fabrication of Connections In Melanesia Looking Good, Feeling Right: Aesthetics of the Self The Other Half: the Material Culture of New Fibres Aesthetics, Ethics and the Politics of the Turkish Headscarf Cloth that Lies: the Secrets of Recycling in India From Thrift to Fashion: Materiality and Aesthetics in Dress Practices in Zambia