Clothing as Material Culture

Datos Bibliográficos

ID24136183
EditoresSusanne Küchler (0000-0002-8114-3593), Daniel Miller (0000-0001-6554-9174)
Año2005
Fecha de publicación2005-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaClothing as Material Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialBerg Publishers (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2752/9780857854056
OpenAlexW1565923979
ISBN9780857854056
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas45

In recent years social scientists have become increasingly interested in theories of fashion, but have rarely directly addressed the material qualities of clothing. By contrast, traditional studies of dress have focused on textiles but often neglect the larger cultural context within which dress becomes consumed as clothing. This book fills a major gap by combining these two ‘camps’ through an expressly material culture approach to clothing. In sustained case studies, Küchler and Miller argue that cloth and clothing are living, vibrant parts of culture and the body. From the recycling of cloth in Africa and India and the use of pattern in the Pacific, to the history of ‘wash and wear’ and why women wear the wrong clothes to restaurants in London, this book shows the considerable advantage gained by seamlessly combining material and social aspects of dress and textiles.

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Clothing · Materiality (auditing) · Miller · Performance studies · Sociology · Turkish · Anthropology · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · History · Philosophy