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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Humanities |
| Grao en Xestión Industrial da Moda |
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| Anthropology of Clothing and Fashion |
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| Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Anthropology of Clothing and Fashion | Code | 710G03007 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
First | Basic training | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| What is Sociocultural Anthropology | Concept of culture Cultural Diversity |
| Methodologies in Sociocultural Anthropology to address the understanding of fashion as a cultural phenomenon | Fieldwork and social research techniques Case Studies |
| Fashion, gender and social structure | The role of fashion in shaping gender roles and identities Fashion, gender and social change Fashion as a marker in the social hierarchy |
| Clothing and apparel in indigenous communities vs. developed societies | Previous conceptual issues Tradition and the re-signification of tradition in the dynamics of modernization Acculturation, Westernization and Resistance in Ancestral Peoples The cultural appropriation of local traditions from the political periphery in Western society Case Studies |
| Fashion as a language | Anthropological analysis of cultural meanings and their application to fashion analysis Dress and other accessories as a non-verbal system of communication |
| Fashion as a construction of identity models | The dynamics of the construction of individual and collective identities in the field of fashion |
| Fashion in its expression of power | Fashion and processes of consolidation of power and resistance to power (fashion as a mechanism of authority formation and as a strategy of opposition to authority). Fashion, cosmovision and ritual. Neocolonialism and fashion. |
| Fashion as economics. Production and consumption logic of fashion | Local production, local consumption Vs Local production, global consumption. Impacts and proposals for mitigating impacts |
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