| Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion: New Perspectives from Europe and North America Contributor(s): Moors, Annelies (Editor), Tarlo, Emma (Editor) |
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ISBN: 085785335X ISBN-13: 9780857853356 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Design | Fashion & Accessories - Design | Textile & Costume - Religion | Islam - Rituals & Practice |
| Dewey: 391.008 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.4" (1.35 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Introducing innovative new research from international scholars working on Islamic fashion and its critics, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion provides a global perspective on muslim dress practices. The book takes a broad geographic sweep, bringing together the sartorial experiences of Muslims in locations as diverse as Paris, the Canadian Prairie, Swedish and Italian bath houses and former socialist countries of Eastern Europe. What new Islamic dress practices and anxieties are emerging in these different locations? How far are they shaped by local circumstances, migration histories, particular religious traditions, multicultural interfaces and transnational links? To what extent do developments in and debates about Islamic dress cut across such local specificities, encouraging new channels of communication and exchange? With original contributions from the fields of anthropology, fashion studies, media studies, religious studies, history, geography and cultural studies, Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion will be of interest to students and scholars working in these fields as well as to general readers interested in the public presence of Islam in Europe and America. |
Contributor Bio(s): Moors, Annelies: - Annelies Moors is a professor at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam where she holds the ISIM (International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World) chair for the social scientific study of contemporary Muslim societies and directs the research programme on Cultural Politics and Islam. She has published in edited volumes and journals on such varied topics as visualizing the nation-gender nexus, gold and globalization, Muslims and fashion, and migrant domestic labour in the Middle East.Tarlo, Emma: - Emma Tarlo teaches at the Ferguson Centre of African and Asian Studies, The Open University. |