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http://dx.doi.org/10.7741/rjcc.2012.20.2.286

Textiles, Clothing & the Human Element

Hawley, Jana M. (Dept. of Textile and Apparel Management, University of Missouri)

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The Research Journal of the Costume Culture / v.20, no.2, 2012 , pp. 286-293 More about this Journal

Abstract

Years ago, anthropologists gave no attention to clothing and dress; but in the 1980s, a new research agenda was created placing the body surface at center stage (Tranberg-Hansen, 2004). Now culture is seen as a process created through agency, practice, and performance-no doubt, clothing very much has a human element. Just as important, we now understand that the globalization process has both local and global impact. Highest on this local/global interaction is the process of consumption. Certainly we are not surprised by this when we know that clothes may be inspired from France, tech-packed from New York, sourced from all over the world, produced in China, and sold in shops on the other side of the globe.

Keywords

human element; metatheory;

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