Fashion History: A Global View (Dress, Body, Culture)

Fashion History: A Global View Proposes A New Perspective On Fashion History. Arguing That Fashion Has Occurred In Cultures Beyond The West Throughout History, This Groundbreaking Book Explores The Geographic Places And Historical Spaces That Have Been Largely Neglected By Contemporary Fashion Studies, Bringing Them Together For The First Time. Reversing The Dominant Narrative That Privileges Western Europe In The History Of Dress, Welters And Lillethun Adopt A Cross-cultural Approach To Explore A Vast Array Of Cultures Around The Globe. They Explore Key Issues Affecting Fashion Systems, Ranging From Innovation, Production And Consumption To Identity Formation And The Effects Of Colonization. Case Studies Include The Cross-cultural Trade Of Silk Textiles In Central Asia, The Indigenous Dress Of The Americas And Of Hawai'i, The Cosmetics Of The Tang Dynasty In China, And Stylistic Innovation In Sub-saharan Africa. Examining The New Lessons That Can Be Deciphered From Archaeological Findings And Theoretical Advancements, The Book Shows That Fashion History Should Be Understood As A Global Phenomenon, Originating Well Before And Beyond The Fourteenth Century European Court, Which Is Continually, And Erroneously, Cited As Fashion's Birthplace. Providing A Fresh Framework For Fashion History Scholarship, Fashion History: A Global View Will Inspire Inclusive Dress Narratives For Students And Scholars Of Fashion, Anthropology, And Cultural Studies-- Machine Generated Contents Note: -- Foreword By Dress, Body, Culture Series Editor Joanne B. Eicher -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Lexicon Of Fashion -- 3. Europe And The People Without Fashion -- 4. How We Got Here -- 5. Fashion Systems In Indigenous Cultures -- 6. Trade Networks In The Eastern Hemisphere -- 7. Courtly Fashion In Asia -- 8. Global Fashion -- Bibliography -- Index. Linda Welters And Abby Lillethun. Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword Chapter 1: Introduction: Europe and the People Without Fashion The argument for a global history of fashion Excluding the rest of the world from fashion Chapter 2: The Lexicon of Fashion Etymology of fashion terms Recommended terminology Chapter 3: Fashion Systems Key fashion theories Chapter 4: How We Got Here Early writings to 1900 Twentieth and twenty-first centuries The new fashion history Chapter 5: Fashion Systems in Prehistory and the Americas Archaeology as a source of evidence Beads and tattoos Fashion systems among southern New England’s Native Americans Fashion systems in Mesoamerica Fashion systems in South America Chapter 6: Fashion Systems and Trade Networks in the Eastern Hemisphere Luxury trade in the Ancient Near East Luxury trade on the Silk Road Fashion systems in the Byzantine Empire Ottoman style The Ottomans and the Persians: A shared heritage Safavid Persian style Kebaya fashions in Java Chapter 7: Fashion Systems in East, South, and Southeast Asia Fashion in China’s Tang and Qing dynasties Korean Hanbok reconsidered The art of fashion in Japan Indian dress as fashion Fashion and Javanese batik design Chapter 8: Alternative Fashion Histories in Euro-America The problem of “The Birth of Fashion” Excluding pre-1340 from the fashion discourse Excluding the non-elite from fashion Chapter 9: Global Fashion Globalization and interdisciplinary Histories of dress Fashion in Polynesia: Hawai’i Local-global style in sub-Saharan Africa Colonialism and fashion in Cambodia Asian influences on Western dress Postmodern global fashion Japanese subcultural fashion Chapter 10: Conclusion Bibliography Index "Fashion History : A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion studies, bringing them together for the first time. Reversing the dominant narrative that privileges Western Europe in the history of dress, Welters and Lillethun adopt a cross-cultural approach to explore a vast array of cultures around the globe. They explore key issues affecting fashion systems, ranging from innovation, production and consumption to identity formation and the effects of colonization. Case studies include the cross-cultural trade of silk textiles in Central Asia, the indigenous dress of the Americas and of Hawai'i, the cosmetics of the Tang Dynasty in China, and stylistic innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. Examining the new lessons that can be deciphered from archaeological findings and theoretical advancements, the book shows that fashion history should be understood as a global phenomenon, originating well before and beyond the fourteenth century European court, which is continually, and erroneously, cited as fashion's birthplace. Providing a fresh framework for fashion history scholarship, Fashion History : A Global View will inspire inclusive dress narratives for students and scholars of fashion, anthropology, and cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher From the indigenous people of sub-Saharan Africa to Eastern trade networks dating back to the Bronze Age, fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history. This book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by traditional fashion studies together for the first time, reversing the dominant narrative that privileges Western Europe in the history of dress.Adopting a cross-cultural approach, Welters and Lillethun explore a vast array of non-western cultures to examine key issues such as gender, production, consumption and colonisation. Case studies include the cross-cultural trade of silk textiles in the Ottoman Empire, the indigenous dress of Hawai'i and the cosmetics of the Tang Dynasty in China and Japan. Examining the new lessons that can be deciphered from archaeological findings and theoretical advancements, the book shows that fashion should be understood as a global phenomenon, originating much before the fourteenth century European court, which is continually, and erroneously, cited as fashion's birthplace.Providing a fresh framework for fashion history scholarship,__Fashion History: A Global View__will inspire inclusive dress narratives for students and scholars of fashion, anthropology and cultural studies. Introduction : Europe and the people without fashion Part 1. Understanding fashion and its history. The lexicon of fashion Fashion systems How we got here Part 2. Outside the canon: alternative fashion histories. Fashion systems in prehistory and the Americas Fashion systems and trade networks in the Eastern hemisphere Fashion systems in East, South, and Southeast Asia Alternative fashion histories in Euro-America Global fashion Conclusion.