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Consuming fashion : adorning the transnational body /

Contributor(s): Series: Dress, body, culturePublication details: Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 1998.Description: xvii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1859739644
  • 9781859739648
  • 1859739695
  • 9781859739693
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Contents:
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.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General GT 596 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0005493

"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.

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