Fashionable Traditions: Asian Handmade Textiles in Motion - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1498586511 ISBN 13 : 9781498586511

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2022

Synopsis

Textiles play a decisive role in history: attire not only indicates status, gender, ethnicity, and religion but illustrates how such boundaries are continuously being negotiated, shifted, and recreated. Fashionable Traditions captures the complex reality of Asian handmade textile production and consumption. From traditionalist discourse and cultural authenticity to fashion and market trends, the contributors to this collection demonstrate the multilayered influence of often contradictory forces. In-depth, ethnographic case studies reveal the entangled relationships between local artisans, external interventions, and consumers, while acknowledging the broader frameworks in which such relationships are situated. Together these stories offer a vivid account of the socio-economic, political, and cultural dynamics in various parts of Asia and emphasize that fashion is neither a Western prerogative nor do its roots reside solely in the West.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ayami Nakatani is professor of cultural anthropology and director of the Discovery Program for Global Learners at Okayama University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498586511
• ISBN 13: 9781498586511
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Éditeur: Nakatani Ayami
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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