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The first work to survey dress around the world, covering consumption, ethnicity, gender and the body, as well as anthropological accounts and studies of representation. The book also examines international western style dress, headwear, ethnicity, traditional dress, alternative' dressing, and T-shirts as markers of identity. -- .

Table of Contents
Frontispiece Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Captions Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Theorising Global Dress 2. Dress and Global Sameness 3. Political Dress 4. Ethnic Dress or Fashionably ‘Ethnic’? 5. Style and Communication 6. Headwear: Negotiating Meaning 7. What’s the Alternative? 8. Clothing: Is there a Responsible Choice? Bibliography Index

Dress and globalisation

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 6 March 2004
      ISBN-13 9780719063893
      978-0719063893
      ISBN-10 0719063892

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      Book Synopsis
      The first work to survey dress around the world, covering consumption, ethnicity, gender and the body, as well as anthropological accounts and studies of representation. The book also examines international western style dress, headwear, ethnicity, traditional dress, alternative' dressing, and T-shirts as markers of identity. -- .

      Table of Contents
      Frontispiece Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Captions Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Theorising Global Dress 2. Dress and Global Sameness 3. Political Dress 4. Ethnic Dress or Fashionably ‘Ethnic’? 5. Style and Communication 6. Headwear: Negotiating Meaning 7. What’s the Alternative? 8. Clothing: Is there a Responsible Choice? Bibliography Index

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