Consuming fashion :
Consuming fashion : adorning the transnational body /
- Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 1998.
- xvii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Dress, body, culture, 1360-466X .
- Dress, body, culture. .
"Papers originated as conference presentations at the Canadian Anthropology Society meetings held in Montreal in 1995"--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
1859739644 9781859739648 1859739695 9781859739693
Clothing and dress--History--20th century.
Clothing and dress--Psychological aspects.
Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects.
Identity (Psychology)
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
Costume--History--20th century.
"Papers originated as conference presentations at the Canadian Anthropology Society meetings held in Montreal in 1995"--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
1859739644 9781859739648 1859739695 9781859739693
Clothing and dress--History--20th century.
Clothing and dress--Psychological aspects.
Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects.
Identity (Psychology)
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
Costume--History--20th century.