Author: Joanne B. Eicher Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1609018702 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 420
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This anthropological investigation of dress featuring selected scholarly readings is ideal for courses focused on global perspectives and cultural aspects of dress.
Author: Joanne Bubolz Eicher Publisher: ISBN: 9781501304262 Category : Body marking Languages : en Pages :
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Everywhere around the world, people make daily decisions about what to wear or how to dress. Using Western and non-Western examples, 'The Visible Self' presents a systematic approach to analyzing these daily rituals that we all share - not simply the act of putting on clothing, but also cleansing the body and adorning it.
Author: Joanne Bubolz Eicher Publisher: Fairchild Books & Visuals ISBN: Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 472
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The authors elaborate on what dress is, define ethnocentrism and position dress in todays society. Using Western and non-Western examples, the book fosters an appreciation of the diversity of surface appearance through an exploration of the common purposes served by dress to protect, satisfy and communicate. The Visible Self, 2nd Edition, analyzes the act of dressing - not simply putting on clothing, but cleansing the body and adorning it.
Author: Joanne B. Eicher Publisher: Fairchild Books ISBN: 1501380931 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 0
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All over the world, people get dressed, mostly for the same reasons. Why, then, do we look so different from each other? The answers lie in the constellations of factors that contribute to the human condition, from climate to conformity, gender expression to race and ethnicity. Beginning with the body as the organizing principle around which to study dress, this 50th anniversary edition of The Visible Self makes sense of humans as biological, social, and aesthetic creatures based on cross-disciplinary concepts and examples. It explores the daily act of dress in cultures around the world, using the word “dress” to describe the wide variety of behaviors connected to the act of adorning our bodies-or not-through the use of clothing, modifications, and/or supplements. Political economies are addressed holistically to understand the global world through contemporary topics such as racism and how dress can be used to sustain or rebel against dominant structures. With current examples and relevant readings in every chapter, the authors convey how dress can achieve standards of appearance and social ideals, relate to individuality and conformity in fashion, and communicate identity and character in the arts. Exploring the global mash-up of fashion, dress, culture, production, and sustainability-including life in a post-pandemic world-The Visible Self offers a powerful understanding of the way we look and how we look at others. New to this Edition: - Focus on the body as the organizing principle in the study of dress including additional insight on fashion and using this concept to define the target customer - Investigation of current issues such as race and the post-pandemic world - Updated readings, at the end of each chapter, with discussion questions that directly connect chapter concepts to reading content - Activities that apply chapter concepts to design, product development, merchandising, and everyday life STUDIO Features Include: - Links to third party video clips to help visualize how dress is used to identify the self - Self-assessment quizzes to test yourself on what you have just read - Flashcards of key terms and concepts covered in the book Instructor Resources - Instructor's Guide to help incorporate the text into your classroom - Test Bank to highly key concepts and test student comprehension on those concepts - PowerPoint Slides for every chapter
Author: Joanne B Eicher Publisher: ISBN: 9781563676437 Category : Languages : en Pages : 496
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The Systematic Study of Dress - The Classification System of Dress - Dress, Culture, and Society - Records of the Types of Dress - Written Interpretations of Dress Physical Appearance. Environment, and Dress - Physical Appearance and Dress - Body, Dress, and Environment Scales of Culture and Dress - Domestic-Scale Culture and Dress - Political-Scale Culture and Dress - Commercial-Scale Culture and Dress Art. Aesthetics, and Dress - The Art of Creating Dress - Ideals for Individual Appearance and the Art of Dress - The Art of Dress: Conformity and Individuality - Dress and the Arts - Dress and the Future - Your Future and Dress - Readings from a variety of sources provide discussion and consideration of controversial issues - Updated examples and current approaches to theoretical orientations, such as new work on the scale of world cultures, genetics, race, and globalization - Revised and expanded art program, including 8-page color insert - Introductory material links each reading to chapter concepts - Expanded end-of-chapter pedagogy will increase utilization of the images and readings - Instructor's Guide provides suggestions for planning the course and using the text in the classroom
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 9780810104570 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 344
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The Visible and the Invisible contains the unfinished manuscript and working notes of the book Merleau-Ponty was writing when he died. The text is devoted to a critical examination of Kantian, Husserlian, Bergsonian, and Sartrean method, followed by the extraordinary "The Intertwining--The Chiasm," that reveals the central pattern of Merleau-Ponty's own thought. The working notes for the book provide the reader with a truly exciting insight into the mind of the philosopher at work as he refines and develops new pivotal concepts.
Author: Linda Martín Alcoff Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198031416 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 345
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In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. Visible Identities fills this gap. Drawing on both philosophical sources as well as theories and empirical studies in the social sciences, Martín Alcoff makes a strong case that identities are not like special interests, nor are they doomed to oppositional politics, nor do they inevitably lead to conformism, essentialism, or reductive approaches to judging others. Identities are historical formations and their political implications are open to interpretation. But identities such as race and gender also have a powerful visual and material aspect that eliminativists and social constructionists often underestimate. Visible Identities offers a careful analysis of the political and philosophical worries about identity and argues that these worries are neither supported by the empirical data nor grounded in realistic understandings of what identities are. Martín Alcoff develops a more realistic characterization of identity in general through combining phenomenological approaches to embodiment with hermeneutic concepts of the interpretive horizon. Besides addressing the general contours of social identity, Martín Alcoff develops an account of the material infrastructure of gendered identity, compares and contrasts gender identities with racialized ones, and explores the experiential aspects of racial subjectivity for both whites and non-whites. In several chapters she looks specifically at Latino identity as well, including its relationship to concepts of race, the specific forms of anti-Latino racism, and the politics of mestizo or hybrid identity.
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