Fashion India : spectacular capitalism /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Oslo : Akademika Publishing, [2013]
Description:	234 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Fashion -- Social aspects -- India. Fashion -- Social aspects. India.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9861303

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Varying Form of Title:	Spectacular capitalism
ISBN:	8232103191 9788232103195
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	The opulent, delicate, and handcrafted Indian fashion pieces resemble the white lotus, India's national flower. The lotus too, with its beauty, grows out of the mud - mud that remains invisible and hidden. This anthology, written by an international group of anthropologists with hands-on experience in India and its multi-faceted fashion industry, explores the underlying dynamics of spectacular capitalism. The contributors present a range of intriguing case studies that open up the potential for critique of the local, as much as the global, system that reproduces hierarchies and inequalities, while opening a window onto contemporary urban India.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Tereza Kuldova
The World Fashion Fair: India on Display / Nilanjana Mukherjee
When the Local is in Fashion. How to spend a few hours waiting for a delayed flight in the middle of the night at the Delhi airport and receive an ethnographic enlightenment / Paolo Favero
`The Maharaja Style': Royal Chic and Double Vision / Tereza Kuldova
Fashion Zeitgeist in Northeast India / Marion Wettstein
Seamingly Known: A Photoessay / Meher Varma
Dressing India Anew: Fashion Designers Betwixt and Between / Janne Meier
Memories of Luxury, Aspirations Towards Glamour, and Cultivations of Morality: How south Indian Muslim women craft their style / Caroline Osella
The Quality of a Copy / Constantine V. Nakassis
Laughing at Luxury: Mocking Fashion Designers / Tereza Kuldova
Walking with Kolhapuri Artisans: On the Art of Designing and Wearing Shoes / Catherine Willems and Kristiaan D'Août
Hindi Cinema and Masculinities: From Salman Khan to John Abraham / Némésis Srour
Epilogue / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

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