Fashionable Traditions

Asian Handmade Textiles in Motion

Buch | Hardcover

316 Seiten

2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8649-8 (ISBN)

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Fashionable Traditions captures the complex reality of Asian, handmade textile production and consumption. Contributors to this collection reveal the entangled relationships between local artisans, external interventions, and consumers to offer a vivid account of the socio-economic, political, and cultural dynamics of Asian fashion.

Textiles play a decisive role in history: attire not only indicates status, gender, ethnicity, and religion but illustrates how such boundaries are continuously being negotiated, shifted, and recreated. Fashionable Traditions captures the complex reality of Asian handmade textile production and consumption. From traditionalist discourse and cultural authenticity to fashion and market trends, the contributors to this collection demonstrate the multilayered influence of often contradictory forces. In-depth, ethnographic case studies reveal the entangled relationships between local artisans, external interventions, and consumers, while acknowledging the broader frameworks in which such relationships are situated. Together these stories offer a vivid account of the socio-economic, political, and cultural dynamics in various parts of Asia and emphasize that fashion is neither a Western prerogative nor do its roots reside solely in the West.

Ayami Nakatani is professor of cultural anthropology and director of the Discovery Program for Global Learners at Okayama University.

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Introduction: Asian Handmade Textiles as Fashionable Traditions
Ayami Nakatani

Part 1: Fashion Dynamics in Tradition
Chapter 1
Ikat Patterns in Flores, Indonesia, and the Global Fashion Trajectory
Willemijn de Jong
Chapter 2
“New Style” of Ethnic Clothing: Dress between Tradition and Fashion among the Hmong in Yunnan, China
Chie Miyawaki
Chapter 3
The Pashmina Shawl: Continuity and Transformation from Ladakh to Kashmir
Monisha Ahmed

Part 2: Politics of Heritage and Beyond
Chapter 4
Listing Cultures: Politics of Boundaries and Heritagization of Handwoven Textiles in Indonesia
Ayami Nakatani
Chapter 5
Between Culture and Technology: “Theme” Saris and the Graphic Representation of Heritage in Tamil Nadu, India
Aarti Kawlra
Chapter 6
“Heritagization” as a Double-edged Sword: The Dilemma of Nishijin Silk Weaving in Kyoto, Japan
Okpyo Moon
Chapter 7
Inheriting Weaving Knowledge in Depopulated Communities: Conservation of Wisteria Fiber Textiles in Kyoto, Japan
Miwa Kanetani

Part 3: Contested Valorization and the Role of Mediators
Chapter 8
Branding Tsumugi Kimono in Japan: Kimono Magazines as Mediators between Consumers and the “Mingei” Movement
Seiko Sugimoto
Chapter 9
“Crafts” to “Art”: A Trajectory of Aboriginal Women’s Weavings in Arnhem Land, Australia
Sachiko Kubota
Chapter 10
Translocal Ikat in Contemporary Bali, Indonesia: Imagining Heritage, Imagining Modernities in Ikat Production and Marketing
Susan Rodgers

Part 4: Ambivalent Encounters with Global Consumers
Chapter 11
Embroidering Development: The Mutwa and Rann Utsav in Kutch, India
Michele A. Hardy
Chapter 12
Strategic Choices of Techniques: Dyed and Printed Textiles for Goddess Rituals in Gujarat, Western India
Yoko Ueba
Chapter 13
Patchworking in Tradition: The Trends of Fashionable Carpets from Turkey
Ulara Tamura
Chapter 14
What Do Handwoven Textiles Do? Constellation of Things and the Primal History among Non-Weaving People in Flores, Eastern Indonesia
Eriko Aoki

Index
About the Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Co-Autor	Monisha Ahmed, Eriko Aoki, Willemijn de Jong, Michele A. Hardy
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 233 mm
Gewicht	667 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4985-8649-X / 149858649X
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-8649-8 / 9781498586498
Zustand	Neuware