Abstract
Focusing on dress practices that involve both new and secondhand clothing in Zambia, this article discusses the 'social death' of things. The ephemeral and fleeting qualities are revealed in the social relations and interactions in which dress is embedded. Different contextual evaluations of the involvement of dress with their wearers' changing lives illustrate how demonstrative display of the dressed body produces experiences of dress that vanish almost as soon as they have been created.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 301-309 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Material Culture |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2003 |
Keywords
- Fashion
- Used clothes
- Zambia
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)