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Dear all,
My Panel on Indian Fashion and Craft at the ASA Conference 2012, Delhi, JNU, 3-6th April, was approved and therefore would like to invite you to send in abstracts once the CFP opens on the ASA website on the 11th of November!
(Feel free to send me an email anytime)
http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa12/index.shtml
EXPLORING THE AESTHETICS AND MEANINGS OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN FASHION: FROM
CRAFT TO THE CATWALK
By Tereza Kuldova, University of Oslo (Museum of Cultural History, Department of Ethnography)
The proposed panel sets as its objective to explore the realm of the
... relationships between the material and the social, taking as its point of
departure clothing and fashion. These are the materials closest to our
bodies, materials shaping our selves and reflecting the society around
them at the same time as their production and consumption gives shape to
the very society around them. Clothing and fashion in India is a topic of
daily talk and preoccupation, it employs millions and preoccupies minds of
even more, and yet anthropological explorations of Indian society through
the lens of material culture and particularly clothing and fashion are
still very marginal and limited (though there are notable exceptions).
This panel therefore invites contributions investigating these relations
further and bringing new perspectives on a range of related topics:
aesthetics, hierarchy, femininity and masculinity, seduction versus
modesty and respectability, tradition and modernity and so forth. This
panel is also open to explorations of contemporary fashion system in India
and invites papers on various crafts and their market, as well as
relationships with designers and other professionals, juxtaposing
vernacular with capitalist economy and addressing the relations of
production and consumption and their dialectics.
The panel explores the realm of relationships between the social and the
material through the focus on Indian fashion, zooming on contemporary
Indian society through the lens of its manifold relationships with
fashion, from craftsmen to designers, production to consumption, tradition
to modernity.
See you in Delhi!
Best,
Tereza Kuldova
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