Anthropology 269
Fashion and Consumption
Spring 2019
MWF 11-11:50 am

Lecture Handouts

 

January 23 (W): Linking Fashion, Consumption, and Culture

January 25 (F): From Production to Consumption in Anthropology

January 28 (M): Gendered Consumption

February 1 (F): Right to Shop?: Fast Fashion

February 8 (F): Thorstein Veblen and the Conspicuous Consumption of the Leisure Class

February 11 (M): Discussion Questions on Veblen

February 13 (W): Barthes and the Semiotics of Consumption

February 15 (F): The Language of Subculture: The Case of Punk

February 22 (F): Bourdieu on Cultural Capital

February 25 (M): Daily Dress Choices

February 27 (W): Taste Work

March 15 (F): Trajectories of Production and Consumption: The Global Movement of Clothes

March 18 (M): The Cultural Economy of Taste and Style: Secondhand Clothing in Zambia

March 25 (M): Fashionable Islamic Dress

March 27 (W): Global Modesty and Distinction

April 1 (M): Discussion

April 3 (W): Orientalism and "The Japanese Invasion"

April 8 (M): Fashioning Difference

April 12 (F): Colonialism, Consumption, and Civilizing Fashion

April 15 (M): Anti-colonial Dress

April 26 (F): Street Style Blogging and the Business of Fashion

May 1 (W): Blue Jeans Go Global

May 6 (M): What Are Clothes Really Worth?

 

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