Sandra Niessen
Biographic Data
| ID | 134734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Niessen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Niessen |
| SIGNATURE | NIESSEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1470-3730 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Defining defashion
A paradigmatic shift is needed if the Fashion industry is to put the well-being of people, their lifeways and the earth first. Like degrowth, defashion involves a deep reduction in material and energy throughputs in clothing production, but it goes much beyond this standard approach to sustainability. The required shift is comparable to the revolutionary change that must be made to the global economic system in order to achieve degrowth and is en…
Decolonizing the Fashion Curriculum in Denmark and Beyond
Dr. Kat Sark (Figure 1) teaches Fashion Studies in the Department of Design and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. She is the founder of the Canadian Fashion Scholars Network and
Fashion, its Sacrifice Zone, and Sustainability
This article proposes a revision to the customary framework of sustainability that is being used by dress scholars, environmental activists and policy makers, so that it includes the putative “non-fashion” clothing traditions of the world. Why, until now, the traditions of the Other have been systematically undervalued and obscured is explained from a decolonial perspective. They constitute a “sacrifice zone” of fashion, the emergence of which is…
Christianity, Colonization, and Gender Relations in North Sumatra
The Revival of Traditional Practices as a Response to Outsiders’ Demands
The Revival of Traditional Practices as a Response to Outsiders’ Demands: The Resurgence of Natural Dye Use in San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala. Over the last two decades increased interest in “natural” products in North America has, along with the banning of Azo dyes in Germany, helped expand market demand for naturally dyed textiles. This paper explores natural dye use among the members of a Mayan women’s artisan group in San Juan La Laguna, Guate…
Consuming Fashion
Consuming Fashion: Adorning Transnational Body. ANNE BRYDON and SANDRA NIESSEN, eds. Oxford and New York: Berg Press, 1998; 196 pp. If imagines a continuum between most idiosyncratic cultural navel-gazing and most militantly positivist social science - and sees Clifford Geertz somewhere in middle - anthropologists brought together by Consuming fashion: Adorning transnational claim a much wider place on continuum than has been customary. Originall…
Dress and Ethnicity
Dress and Ethnicity is the second in the Ethnic Identities Series recently initiated by Berg publishers. book comprises 15 articles and focusses on ethnic expressions in several regions of the world including Scotland and Brittany, Cypress, Greece, Japan (2 articles), Nigeria (2 articles), Herero, Swaziland, Israel/Palestine, the U.S.A. and Ecuador. articles include the proceedings of a seminar on The Social Construction of Ethnic Identity at the…
Margot Blum Schevill, Janet Catherine Berlo, and Edward B. Dwyer. Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes
Textile Traditions ofMesoamerica and the Andes: An Anthology, MARGOT BLUM SCHEVILL. JANET CATHERINE BERLO. and EDWARD B. DWYER. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1991. 503 pp., b/w illustrations. Out of print
Textiles of Southeast Asia
Textiles of Southeast Asia: An Annotated and illustrated Bibliography, Michel C. Howard. Bangkok/Cheney: White Lotus Co. Ltd., 1994.212 pp., 101 color illustrations
Hanging Without a Rope
When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit mediums, the gurus who keep a community in touch with its ancestors. She became fascinated by the stories these women and men told of their encounters with spirits in the ritual arena and on the borders of the everyday social world. In these stories, Karo mediums conveyed their sense of historical out-of-placeness, which they descri…
Zapotec Women
The Ainu in Mimpaku
Tradition, Trade and Transformation
Tradition, Trade and Transformation: Southeast Asian Textiles. ROBYN MAXWELL. Melbourne: Australian National Gallery and Oxford University Press, 1990. 432pp., 580 b/w and color illustrations, map, glossary of technical terms, bibliography. $135 (cloth). Indonesian Textiles. MICHAEL HITCHCOCK. Berkeley and Singapore: Periplus Editions, 1991.192pp., numerous b/w and color photographs, illustrations, map, bibliography. $27.95 (paper
More to it than meets the eye
Photo‐elicitation was utilized by the author in the Batak area of North Sumatra, Indonesia, to obtain information on Batak textiles stored in European museums. This article examines the kinds of interaction which occurred between the anthropologist, owner of the photographs, and the viewers of the photographs, from whom responses were being elicited. The data collected demonstrate that, regardless of the edge on reality that photographic document…
Toba-Batak matriliny
Fashion, its Sacrifice Zone, and Sustainability
This article proposes a revision to the customary framework of sustainability that is being used by dress scholars, environmental activists and policy makers, so that it includes the putative “non-fashion” clothing traditions of the world. Why, until now, the traditions of the Other have been systematically undervalued and obscured is explained from a decolonial perspective. They constitute a “sacrifice zone” of fashion, the emergence of which is…
The Ainu in Mimpaku
More to it than meets the eye
Photo‐elicitation was utilized by the author in the Batak area of North Sumatra, Indonesia, to obtain information on Batak textiles stored in European museums. This article examines the kinds of interaction which occurred between the anthropologist, owner of the photographs, and the viewers of the photographs, from whom responses were being elicited. The data collected demonstrate that, regardless of the edge on reality that photographic document…
Defining defashion
A paradigmatic shift is needed if the Fashion industry is to put the well-being of people, their lifeways and the earth first. Like degrowth, defashion involves a deep reduction in material and energy throughputs in clothing production, but it goes much beyond this standard approach to sustainability. The required shift is comparable to the revolutionary change that must be made to the global economic system in order to achieve degrowth and is en…
Decolonizing the Fashion Curriculum in Denmark and Beyond
Dr. Kat Sark (Figure 1) teaches Fashion Studies in the Department of Design and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. She is the founder of the Canadian Fashion Scholars Network and
Dress and Ethnicity
Dress and Ethnicity is the second in the Ethnic Identities Series recently initiated by Berg publishers. book comprises 15 articles and focusses on ethnic expressions in several regions of the world including Scotland and Brittany, Cypress, Greece, Japan (2 articles), Nigeria (2 articles), Herero, Swaziland, Israel/Palestine, the U.S.A. and Ecuador. articles include the proceedings of a seminar on The Social Construction of Ethnic Identity at the…
Toba-Batak matriliny
More to it than meets the eye
Photo‐elicitation was utilized by the author in the Batak area of North Sumatra, Indonesia, to obtain information on Batak textiles stored in European museums. This article examines the kinds of interaction which occurred between the anthropologist, owner of the photographs, and the viewers of the photographs, from whom responses were being elicited. The data collected demonstrate that, regardless of the edge on reality that photographic document…
Tradition, Trade and Transformation
Tradition, Trade and Transformation: Southeast Asian Textiles. ROBYN MAXWELL. Melbourne: Australian National Gallery and Oxford University Press, 1990. 432pp., 580 b/w and color illustrations, map, glossary of technical terms, bibliography. $135 (cloth). Indonesian Textiles. MICHAEL HITCHCOCK. Berkeley and Singapore: Periplus Editions, 1991.192pp., numerous b/w and color photographs, illustrations, map, bibliography. $27.95 (paper
Hanging Without a Rope
When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit mediums, the gurus who keep a community in touch with its ancestors. She became fascinated by the stories these women and men told of their encounters with spirits in the ritual arena and on the borders of the everyday social world. In these stories, Karo mediums conveyed their sense of historical out-of-placeness, which they descri…
Zapotec Women
The Ainu in Mimpaku
Margot Blum Schevill, Janet Catherine Berlo, and Edward B. Dwyer. Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes
Textile Traditions ofMesoamerica and the Andes: An Anthology, MARGOT BLUM SCHEVILL. JANET CATHERINE BERLO. and EDWARD B. DWYER. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1991. 503 pp., b/w illustrations. Out of print
Textiles of Southeast Asia
Textiles of Southeast Asia: An Annotated and illustrated Bibliography, Michel C. Howard. Bangkok/Cheney: White Lotus Co. Ltd., 1994.212 pp., 101 color illustrations
Dress and Ethnicity
Dress and Ethnicity is the second in the Ethnic Identities Series recently initiated by Berg publishers. book comprises 15 articles and focusses on ethnic expressions in several regions of the world including Scotland and Brittany, Cypress, Greece, Japan (2 articles), Nigeria (2 articles), Herero, Swaziland, Israel/Palestine, the U.S.A. and Ecuador. articles include the proceedings of a seminar on The Social Construction of Ethnic Identity at the…
Consuming Fashion
Consuming Fashion: Adorning Transnational Body. ANNE BRYDON and SANDRA NIESSEN, eds. Oxford and New York: Berg Press, 1998; 196 pp. If imagines a continuum between most idiosyncratic cultural navel-gazing and most militantly positivist social science - and sees Clifford Geertz somewhere in middle - anthropologists brought together by Consuming fashion: Adorning transnational claim a much wider place on continuum than has been customary. Originall…
The Revival of Traditional Practices as a Response to Outsiders’ Demands
The Revival of Traditional Practices as a Response to Outsiders’ Demands: The Resurgence of Natural Dye Use in San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala. Over the last two decades increased interest in “natural” products in North America has, along with the banning of Azo dyes in Germany, helped expand market demand for naturally dyed textiles. This paper explores natural dye use among the members of a Mayan women’s artisan group in San Juan La Laguna, Guate…
Christianity, Colonization, and Gender Relations in North Sumatra
Decolonizing the Fashion Curriculum in Denmark and Beyond
Dr. Kat Sark (Figure 1) teaches Fashion Studies in the Department of Design and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. She is the founder of the Canadian Fashion Scholars Network and
Fashion, its Sacrifice Zone, and Sustainability
This article proposes a revision to the customary framework of sustainability that is being used by dress scholars, environmental activists and policy makers, so that it includes the putative “non-fashion” clothing traditions of the world. Why, until now, the traditions of the Other have been systematically undervalued and obscured is explained from a decolonial perspective. They constitute a “sacrifice zone” of fashion, the emergence of which is…
Defining defashion
A paradigmatic shift is needed if the Fashion industry is to put the well-being of people, their lifeways and the earth first. Like degrowth, defashion involves a deep reduction in material and energy throughputs in clothing production, but it goes much beyond this standard approach to sustainability. The required shift is comparable to the revolutionary change that must be made to the global economic system in order to achieve degrowth and is en…
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