Julie Valk (UK Kingâ s College London)

Gebundenes Buch

Selling the Kimono

An Ethnography of Crisis, Creativity and Hope

Beschreibung

Based on twelve months of in-depth ethnographic research in Japan with retailers, customers, wholesalers, writers and craftspeople, Selling the Kimono is a journey behind the scenes of a struggle to adapt to difficult economic conditions and declining demand for the kimono.

Autor

Julie Valk is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at King's College London. She is a social anthropologist who has produced a substantial body of work on the Japanese kimono industry and contemporary kimono culture. Her work has appeared in HAU: the Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2020), the Journal of Material Culture (2020) and Fashion Theory (2018). She has research interests in economic anthropology, the sociology of expertise, financial systems, Japanese society and culture, as well as clothing and fashion.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in Ethnography
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780367482138
• ISBN-10: 0367482134
• Artikelnr.: 69797891