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A Cultural History of Jewish Dress by Eric Silverman
$45.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Dress, Body, Culture
A Cultural History of Jewish Dress is the first comprehensive account of how Jews have been distinguished by their appearance from Ancient Israel to today. For centuries Jews have dressed in distinctive ways to communicate their devotion to God, their religious identity, and the proper earthly roles of ...Show more
African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance by Karen Tranberg Hansen
$39.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Dress, Body, Culture
Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, African Dress explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimize existing power structures through expressions ...Show more
Costuming Cosplay - Dressing the Imagination by Therèsa M. Winge; Joanne B. Eicher (Series edited by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Dress, Body, Culture Ser.
Cosplay, short for "costume play", has grown from its origins at fan conventions into a billion-dollar global dress phenomenon. Costuming Cosplaytakes us from elaborately crafted DIY costumes to online fandoms, examining how the practice of portraying fictional characters from popular culture through dr ...Show more
DIY Style: Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures by Brent Luvaas
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Category: No Category | Series: Dress, Body, Culture
Armed with cheap digital technologies and a fiercely independent spirit, millions of young people from around the world have taken cultural production into their own hands, crafting their own clothing lines, launching their own record labels, and forging a vast, collaborative network of impassioned amat ...Show more
Dress, Fashion and Technology: From Prehistory to the Present by Phyllis G. Tortora
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Category: No Category | Series: Dress, Body, Culture
Technology has been an essential factor in the production of dress and the cultures of fashion throughout human history. Structured chronologically from prehistory to the present day, this is the first broad study of the complex relationship between dress and technology. Over the course of human history ...Show more
Fashion-Ology by Yuniya Kawamura; Joanne B. Eicher (Contribution by)
$43.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Dress, Body, Culture Ser.
This new edition of a classic work offers a concise introduction to the sociology of fashion, and demystifies the workings of the fashion system. From the origins of fashion studies and the difference between clothing and fashion, through to an examination of 21st century subcultures, and the impact of ...Show more
Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice by Marie Riegels Melchior
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Category: No Category | Series: Dress, Body, Culture
Why is fashion "in fashion" in museums today? This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice. Chapters explore the role of fashion in the museum acr ...Show more
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