World Dress and Anthropology
Luxury Indian Fashion A Social Critique Tereza Kuldova
This ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic. Tracking luxury Indian fashion from its production in village craft workshops via upmarket design studios to fashion soirées, Kuldova investigates the Indian luxury fashion market’s dependence on the production of thousands of artisans all over India, revealing a complex system of hierarchies and exploitation. From the cultivation of erotic capital in businesswomen’s dress to a discussion of masculinity and muscular neo-royals to staged designer funerals, Luxury Indian Fashion analyzes the production, consumption and aesthetics of luxury and power in India.
March 2016 224 pages 30 bw illus 234 x 156mm / 9.2 x 6.1 inches HB 9781474220927 £65.00 / $112.00 Series: Materializing Culture Bloomsbury Academic
Tereza Kuldova is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway.
African Lace Bark in the Caribbean The Construction of Race, Class and Gender Steeve O. Buckridge
The creation of lace-bark cloth from the lagetta tree was a practice that enabled African slave women to fashion their own clothing and nurture tradition in the Caribbean diaspora. This pioneering study explores the history of Caribbean bark cloth and slave women from the 1660s to the 1920s, and in particular explores the relationship between bark cloth production and identity amongst slave women. Covering how the industry developed, the types of clothes made, the people who wore them, and the social roles played by bark cloth production, it explores the dynamics of race, class and gender in Caribbean material culture.
June 2016 192 pages 40 black and white images 234 x 156mm / 9.2 x 6.1 inches HB 9781472569301 £65.00 / $112.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Steeve O. Buckridge is Director of Area Studies programs and Professor of African and Caribbean History at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA.
Key Titles Japanese Fashion Cultures Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan Masafumi Monden
“Masafumi Monden’s fascinating and important book, Japanese Fashion Cultures, will be of great interest to everyone interested in fashion, gender, globalization, and youth culture. His research on young Japanese men and their attitudes towards fashion is especially significant, as it calls into question persistent stereotypes about how men and women are assumed to engage with fashion.” Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator, The Museum at FIT, New York City, USA
2014 216 pages 15 bw illus 234 x 156mm / 9.2 x 6.1 inches PB 9781472532800 £19.99 / $29.95 HB 9781472536211 £65.00 / $112.00 Series: Dress, Body, Culture Bloomsbury Academic
Through cutting-edge analysis of contemporary style tribes, Japanese Fashion Cultures challenges widely held notions of gender relations and European style imitation in Japan. Masafumi Monden is Research Associate at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
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