Acknowledgments
Introduction
Brent Luvaas and Joanne B. Eicher
Part 1: Classic Works in the Anthropology of Dress and Fashion
Preface
1. The Principle of Order in Civilization as Exemplified by Changes in Fashion
A.L. Kroeber
2. Customs and Beliefs: Ceremonial
Alfred R. Radcliffe-Brown
3. Dress
Ruth Benedict
4. Fashion
Edward Sapir
5. Dress: Its Origins, Forms, and Psychology, with Special Emphasis on the Sexual Psychology
A.E. Crawley
Part 2: Theorizing Dress and Fashion
Preface
1. Fashion -v- Anti-Fashion
Ted Polhemus
2. The Social Skin
Terence S. Turner
3. Clothing as Language: An Object Lesson in the Study of the Expressive Properties of Material Culture
Grant McCracken
4. Definition and Classification of Dress: Implications for Analysis of Gender Roles
Joanne B. Eicher & Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins
5. The Antisocial Skin: Structure, Resistance, and "Modern Primitive" Adornment in theUnited States
Daniel Rosenblatt
6. Style and Ontology
Daniel Miller
Part 3: Material Culture
Preface
1. The Other Half: The Material Culture of New Fibres
Kaori O'Connor
2. Cloth and Clothing
Jane Schneider
3. Jeanealogies: Materiality and the (Im)permanence of Relationships and Intimacy
Sophie Woodward
4. Wild Silk Textiles of the Dogon of Mali: The Production, Material Efficacy, and Cultural Significance of Sheen
Laurence Douny
5. Clothing sociality: Materiality and the everyday among the Kuna of Panama
Margherita Margiotti
Part 4: Dressing the Body in Culture
Preface
1. Kalabari Cut-Thread and Pulled-Thread Cloth
Tonye Victor Erekosima and Joanne B. Eicher
2. Cloth that Does Not Die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bùnu Social Life
Elisha Renne
3. The Political Economy of Elegance: An African Cult of Beauty
Jonathan Friedman
4. The Predicament of Dress: Polyvalency and the Ironies of Cultural Identity
Deborah Durham
5. Body Talk: Revelations of Self and Body in Contemporary Strip Clubs
Katherine Frank
Part 5: Dressing the Colony, Fashioning the Nation
Preface
1. Dressing for Dinner in the Bush: Rituals of Self-Definition and British Imperial Authority
Helen Callaway
2. Fashioning the Colonial Subject
Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff
3. The Ao Dai Goes Global: How International Influences and Female Entrepreneurs Have Shaped Vietnam's "National Costume"
Ann Marie Leshkowich
4. Dress for Sukses:Fashioning Femininity and Nationality in Urban Indonesia
Carla Jones
5. "Doing" Danish Fashion: On National Identity and Design Practices of a Small Danish Fashion Company
Marie Riegels Melchior
Part 6: Clothing, Class, and Competing Cosmopolitanisms
Preface
1. Fashion, Anti-Fashion, and Heteroglossia in Urban Senegal
Deborah Heath
2. Dressed to "Shine": Work, Leisure and Style in Malinda, Kenya
Johanna Schoss
3. Fashionable Muslims: Notions of Self, Religion, and Society in San'a
Annelies Moors
4. Landscapes of Attraction and Rejection: South Asian Aesthetics in Islamic Fashions inLondon
Emma Tarlo
5. Forging Connections, Performing Distinctions: Youth, Dress and Consumption in Niger Adeline Masquelier
6. Fashionably Modest of Modestly Unfashionable?
Eric Silverman
Part 7: Making Global Fashion
Preface
1. The Globalization of Asian Dress: Re-Orienting Fashion or Re-Orientalizing Asia?
Carla Jones and Anne Marie Leshkowich
2. Haute Couture in Tehran: Two Faces of an Emerging Fashion Scene
Alexandru Balasescu
3. Recasting Fashion Image Production: An Ethnographic and Practice-Based Approach to Investigating Bodies in Media
Stephanie Sadre-Orafai
4. Ethnographic Entanglements: Memory and Narrative in the Global Fashion Industry
Christina H. Moon
5. Making Clothes for International Markets: A Clothing Perspective on Globalization
Jianhua Zhao
6. In Patagonia (Clothing): A Complicated Greenness
Sharon J. Hepburn
Part 8: The Afterlives of Dress and Fashion
Preface
1. Other People's Clothes? The International Second-hand Clothing Trade and Dress Practices in Zambia
Karen Tranberg Hansen
2. Making New Vintage Jeans in Japan: Relocating Authenticity
Philomena Keet
3. Fake Brands
Magdalena Craciun
4. On Cutting and Pasting: The Art and Politics of DIY Streetwear
Brent Luvaas
Bibliography
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