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Hand-crafted identities: Sartorial taste and belonging amongst elite women in urban India:
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Handloom saris are a loaded signifier of the handmade, the vernacular, the traditional, and the authentic in contemporary India as discussed by the authors, and they are a part of a pan-Indianized repertoire.Abstract:
Craft in contemporary India is a loaded signifier of the handmade, the vernacular, the traditional, and the authentic. Handloom saris, as part of a pan-Indianized repertoire, index the virtues of t...read more
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Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
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Critical Craft: Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism ed. by Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber and Alicia Ory DeNicola (review)
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Capitalist Progress and Moral Economy: Sustaining Employment in India’s Handloom Sector:
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The Artisan Economy and the New Spirit of Capitalism
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TL;DR: In the context of deindustrialization and the rise of the service economy, small artisan businesses have been promoted as a liberatory alternative to large-scale enterprise and mass productio... as mentioned in this paper.
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
TL;DR: In this article, a social critic of the judgement of taste is presented, and a "vulgar" critic of 'pure' criticiques is proposed to counter this critique.
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The social life of things: Introduction: commodities and the politics of value
TL;DR: The authors argue that what creates the link between exchange and value is politics, and propose a new perspective on the circulation of commodities in social life, which justifies the conceit that commodities, like persons, have social lives.
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Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
TL;DR: Mahmood as discussed by the authors explores the conceptual challenges that women's involvement in the Islamist movement poses to feminist theory in particular and to secular-liberal thought in general through an ethnographic account of the urban women's mosque movement that is part of the Islamic Revival in Cairo, Egypt.
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Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity
TL;DR: Wilson as mentioned in this paper traces the social and cultural history of fashion and its complex relationship to modernity from haute couture to haberdashery, "deviant" dress to Dior.
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colonialism, nationalism, and colonialized women: the contest in India
TL;DR: The nationalist response to the treatment of women in India by identifying a scriptural tradition was to construct a reformed tradition and defend it on the grounds of modernity as mentioned in this paper, creating the image of a new woman who was superior to Western women, traditional Indian women, and low-class women.