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
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 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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