{"product_id":"fashionable-traditions-9781498586511","title":"Fashionable Traditions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTextiles 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an intrepid anthology. Even as Asian indigenous textile makers try out a multiplicity of strategies to find a way for their art\/craft to survive in the global world, the contributors to this volume explore new frameworks to describe their ingenuity. 'Fashionalization', 'modernization', 'trivialization', '(de)commodification', 'heritagization', all typify trajectories of reinvention, external mediation and experimentation. The usually unseen struggles of indigenous textile producers deserve more spokespeople like these. -- Sandra Niessen, Anthropologist\u003cbr\u003eFashionable Traditions offers significant new insights into the relationship between Asian indigenous textile cultures and their assimilation into the world of global consumption, from heritage industries to fashion. The authors bring anthropological and historical perspectives that are based on original and extensive field research. The volume adds considerably to our understanding of the multiple roles of handmade textiles in a modern world. -- Ruth Barnes, Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art, Yale University Art Gallery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone interested in the changes taking place where hand-made textiles are produced, this book offers a range of insights into the processes at work. The authors have all produced intelligent, thoughtful studies that are well worth reading. This book makes a valuable contribution to knowledge about the interplay between \"tradition\" and \"fashion\" in textile production in the modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e * Southeast Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Tables\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Asian Handmade Textiles as Fashionable Traditions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAyami Nakatani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1: Fashion Dynamics in Tradition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIkat Patterns in Flores, Indonesia, and the Global Fashion Trajectory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWillemijn de Jong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“New Style” of Ethnic Clothing: Dress between Tradition and Fashion among the Hmong in Yunnan, China\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChie Miyawaki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Pashmina Shawl: Continuity and Transformation from Ladakh to Kashmir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMonisha Ahmed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2: Politics of Heritage and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eListing Cultures: Politics of Boundaries and Heritagization of Handwoven Textiles in Indonesia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAyami Nakatani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween Culture and Technology: “Theme” Saris and the Graphic Representation of Heritage in Tamil Nadu, India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAarti Kawlra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Heritagization” as a Double-edged Sword: The Dilemma of Nishijin Silk Weaving in Kyoto, Japan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOkpyo Moon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInheriting Weaving Knowledge in Depopulated Communities: Conservation of Wisteria Fiber Textiles in Kyoto, Japan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMiwa Kanetani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 3: Contested Valorization and the Role of Mediators\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBranding Tsumugi Kimono in Japan: Kimono Magazines as Mediators between Consumers and the “Mingei” Movement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeiko Sugimoto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Crafts” to “Art”: A Trajectory of Aboriginal Women’s Weavings in Arnhem Land, Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSachiko Kubota\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslocal Ikat in Contemporary Bali, Indonesia: Imagining Heritage, Imagining Modernities in Ikat Production and Marketing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusan Rodgers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 4: Ambivalent Encounters with Global Consumers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmbroidering Development: The Mutwa and Rann Utsav in Kutch, India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichele A. Hardy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStrategic Choices of Techniques: Dyed and Printed Textiles for Goddess Rituals in Gujarat, Western India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYoko Ueba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatchworking in Tradition: The Trends of Fashionable Carpets from Turkey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUlara Tamura\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat Do Handwoven Textiles Do? Constellation of Things and the Primal History among Non-Weaving People in Flores, Eastern Indonesia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEriko Aoki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040847855959,"sku":"9781498586511","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498586511.jpg?v=1750948049","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fashionable-traditions-9781498586511","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}