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Dressing with Purpose - Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia (Hardcover)
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Dressing with Purpose - Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia (Hardcover)
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Dress helps us fashion identity, history, community, and place.
Dress has been harnessed as a metaphor for both progress and
stability, the exotic and the utopian, oppression and freedom,
belonging and resistance. Dressing with Purpose examines three
Scandinavian dress traditions-Swedish folkdrakt, Norwegian bunad,
and Sami gakti-and traces their development during two centuries of
social and political change across northern Europe. By the 20th
century, many in Sweden worried about the ravages of
industrialization, urbanization, and emigration on traditional ways
of life. Norway was gripped in a struggle for national
independence. Indigenous Sami communities-artificially divided by
national borders and long resisting colonial control-rose up in
protests that demanded political recognition and sparked cultural
renewal. Within this context of European nation-building, colonial
expansion, and Indigenous activism, traditional dress took on
special meaning as folk, national, or ethnic minority
costumes-complex categories that deserve reexamination today.
Through lavishly illustrated and richly detailed case studies,
Dressing with Purpose introduces readers to individuals who adapt
and revitalize dress traditions to articulate who they are,
proclaim personal values and group allegiances, strive for
sartorial excellence, reflect critically on the past, and
ultimately, reshape the societies they live in.
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