Anthropology 269
Fashion and Consumption
Spring 2019
Identification Terms for the Midterm
Instructions: On the midterm exam, you will be asked to define FIVE of eight terms, all of them chosen from the list below. For each term, identify where it comes from (the reading, author, and/or lecture topic), explain what it means, and discuss its significance. Each term will be worth five points, for a total of 25 points.
Tylor's definition of culture
consumption as "vanguard of history"
vertical integration
"true materialism"
Victorian department store
Susan Bordo
Betty Friedan
"housewife as global dictator"
burqa
9/11
fast fashion
Jobber Market
conspicuous consumption
conspicuous leisure
predatory culture
emulation
semiotics
sign/signifier/signified
image clothing
written clothing
real clothing
langue
parole
subculture
polysemy
Noise
homology
Sex Pistols
taste
social capital
cultural capital
economic capital
being versus seeming
habitus
Mumtaz
Rosie
secondary agents
Asian superbloggers
taste work
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