Clothing as material culture

Author(s)

• Küchler, Susanne
• Miller, Daniel

Bibliographic Information

Clothing as material culture

edited by Susanne Küchler and Daniel Miller

Berg, 2005

• : pbk
• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• Introduction / Daniel Miller
• Looking good : feeling right--aesthetics of the self / Sophie Woodward
• The other half : the material culture of new fibres / Kaori O'Connor
• Aesthetics, ethics and politics of the Turkish headscarf / Özlem Sandıkcı and Güliz Ger
• Cloth that lies : the secrets of recycling in India / Lucy Norris
• From thrift to fashion : materiality and aesthetics in dress practices in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen
• Nga aho tipuna (ancestral threads) : Maori cloaks from New Zealand / Amiria Henare
• Relative imagery : patterns of response to the revival of archaic chiefly dress in Fiji / Chloë Colchester
• Pattern, efficacy and enterprise : on the fabrication of connections in Melanesia / Graeme Were
• Why are there quilts in Polynesia? / Susanne Küchler

Details

• NCID: BA71567813
• ISBN:
  • 1845200675
  • 1845200667
• LCCN: 2004030414
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: x, 195 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN418
  • DC22 : 391
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Clothing and dress
  • LCSH : Material culture