Dress and Globalisation

Informationen zum Autor Margaret Maynard is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Klappentext The first work to survey dress around the world, covering consumption, ethnicity, gender and the body, as well as anthropological accounts and studies of representation. The book also examines international western style dress, headwear, ethnicity, traditional dress, 'alternative' dressing, and T-shirts as markers of identity. Zusammenfassung The first work to survey dress around the world, covering consumption, ethnicity, gender and the body, as well as anthropological accounts and studies of representation. The book also examines international western style dress, headwear, ethnicity, traditional dress, ‘alternative’ dressing, and T-shirts as markers of identity. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Frontispiece Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Captions Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Theorising Global Dress 2. Dress and Global Sameness 3. Political Dress 4. Ethnic Dress or Fashionably 'Ethnic'? 5. Style and Communication 6. Headwear: Negotiating Meaning 7. What's the Alternative? 8. Clothing: Is there a Responsible Choice? Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Maynard
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2004
• EAN: 9780719063893
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6389-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design (Paperback); Studies in Design and Material Culture; Material Culture; Studies in Design and Material
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries