The Orientalisation of the Sari—Sartorial Praxis and Womanhood in Colonial and Post-Colonial India
TL;DR: In this article, the homologies between colonial knowledge projects and post-colonial revival programs through Indian textiles and dress are analyzed, and the homology between these two projects is analyzed.
Abstract: This article analyses the homologies between colonial knowledge projects and post-colonial revival programmes through Indian textiles and dress. In the nineteenth century, the colonial bureaucracy ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an ethnographic account of life, work and migration in a North Indian Muslim-dominated woodworking industry, and examine how woodworkers utilize local and transnational networks, based on identity, religiosity, and affective circulations, to access resources, support and forms of mutuality.
Abstract: Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans provides an ethnography of life, work and migration in a North Indian Muslim-dominated woodworking industry. It traces artisanal connections within the local context, during migration within India, and to the Gulf, examining how woodworkers utilise local and transnational networks, based on identity, religiosity, and affective circulations, to access resources, support and forms of mutuality. However, the book also illustrates how liberalisation, intensifying forms of marginalisation and incorporation into global production networks have led to spatial pressures, fragmentation of artisanal labour, and forms of enclavement that persist despite geographical mobility and connectedness.
By working across the dialectic of marginality and connectedness, Thomas Chambers thinks through these complexities and dualities by providing an ethnographic account that shares everyday life with artisans and others in the industry. Descriptive detail is intersected with spatial scales of ‘local’, ‘national’ and ‘international’, with the demands of supply chains and labour markets within India and abroad, with structural conditions, and with forms of change and continuity. Empirically, then, the book provides a detailed account of a specific locale, but also contributes to broader theoretical debates centring on theorisations of margins, borders, connections, networks, embeddedness, neoliberalism, subjectivities, and economic or social flux.
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...These processes are echoed in India, where artisans are often marginalised but also constructed as central to ideals of national identity and seen as combining the ‘traditional’ with ‘modern’ aspirations (Mohsini 2010; Venkatesan 2009; Sharma 2019)....
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...Textiles, for example, were often held up as a form of ‘native’ artisanship and used in the construction of discourses which subjugated and exoticised the Indian ‘other’ (Sharma 2019)....
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13 Sep 2021-Pentecostudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on The Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements
TL;DR: In this paper, the significance of clothes and jewellery among Pentecostal middle-class women in Bangalore, South India, was examined, where they position themselves in relation to a religiously diverse context through their dress.
Abstract: This article examines the significance of clothes and jewellery among Pentecostal middle-class women in Bangalore, South India. It discusses how they position themselves in relation to a religiously diverse context through their dress. Ways of dressing constitute embodied practices that express religious identity. Moreover, the issue of dress also demonstrates individual Pentecostal laywomen's agency in negotiating official church discourse, as well as the strong connections between lived religion and religious institutions. The methods used in the study are participant observations and qualitative semi-structured interviews with ordinary Pentecostals from two churches. Attitudes and practices relating to dress differ drastically between these two churches, thereby highlighting differences between the two types of South Indian Pentecostalism that they represent. The article illustrates how a focus on gender, embodiment and materiality can draw attention to previously overlooked dimensions of Pentecostalism as lived religion.
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TL;DR: The emergence of the high-end fashion industry in India from the mid-1980s to 2005 was studied in this article, where the authors found that the Indian fashion industry's unique identity, based on heavily embellished traditional styles rather than innovative Western-style cuts and designs, was the result of early entrepreneurs.
Abstract: This study documents the emergence of the high-end fashion industry in India from the mid-1980s to 2005. Drawn from oral histories, magazine articles, and several databases, the study demonstrates that the Indian fashion industry's unique identity, based on heavily embellished traditional styles rather than innovative Western-style cuts and designs, was the result of the actions of early entrepreneurs.
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