Anthropology of Clothing and Fashion Cloth and Human Experience ANTHRO 3373 Dr. Kedron Thomas !Cloth and Culture Manufacture Exchange Transmission of Authority and Identity Dress and AdornmentK’ux center, soul, heart the point at which alternating warp threads cross Wäy tortilla, food weft threadCloth and Capitalism The original commodity Transformations in production The rise of “fashion”“In modern society, we live almost entirely through goods that we do not make.” - Daniel Miller, “Consumption and Its Consequences”Commodity Fetishism Experiential gap between production and consumption Commodities seem to o appear from nowhere o have a life of their ownForced ObsolescenceThe Labor of ConsumptionAppropriation Consumption is a process through which people craft identities.Gifts What kinds of social relations are produced through different types of exchange? Commodities!“We … evolve new and complex forms of exchange and difference that employ objects to construct a changing but widely held sense of how people should act and of the kinds of relationship they should have with each other.” - Miller, p. 25Consumption as a moral obligation Consumption-based identities Consumption and human nature Consumer
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