• SSSWARM Seminar: Linking and layering: On the materiality of locality in Fijian fashion design

    University of Sydney, Room 441, Social Sciences Building, Room 441, Social Sciences Building, Science Road, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney

    About Sydney Staff and Student Workshops in Anthropology, Research, and Methods (SSSWARM) is a postgraduate workshop series aiming to encourage dialogue and debate on the diversity of ways in which anthropologists understand, use, and reflect on research methods. Description This talk focuses upon the ways in which fashion designers materially negotiate location - from social encounters across local, global and online spaces to ancestral connections and atmospheres – into their cultural practice. Drawing upon an ethnographic study of Fijian fashion designers, I explore the ways in which locality is layered into clothing designs as they move through the phases of […]

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