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This module looks at anthropological approaches to material, digital and visual culture. We will first consider object worlds in some detail, and focus on cloth and clothing, fashion and faith, recycling and fashion revolution. As an object of material and visual culture, cloth is frequently co-opted as a vehicle for multiple social and cultural agendas. We will look at specific items of clothing and explore how they may act as a lighting rod for emotive stereotypes regarding race, religion, gender and geopolitical forces. We will then place take these insights and consider how people create their own worlds through online interactions and visual media. Student participation in class and peer discussion will be expected in all sessions.
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