{"product_id":"9783956500855","title":"Fashioning the Self in Transcultural Settings: The Uses and Significance of Dress in Self-Narratives","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe current volume developed out of an international workshop of the German Research Foundation's Research Group 530 on \"self-narratives in a transcultural perspective\" [DFG-Forschergruppe 530 \"Selbstzeugnisse in transkultureller Per-spektive\"] that was held at the Orient-Institut Istanbul from September 29 until October 2, 2009. The workshop formed part of a long-standing cooperation with the Orient-Institut Istanbul, where research on transcultural self-narratives con-tinues beyond the term of the research group, with the project \"Istanbul Memo-ries. Personal narratives of the late Ottoman period\" (www.istanbulmemories.org). The stimulating discussions at the Orient-Institut Istanbul centered around the multifaceted interplay between dress and person\/personhood in written self-narratives or ego documents. By focusing on \"Fashioning the Self in Transcul-tural Settings: The Uses and Significance of Dress in Self-Narratives,\" we hoped to supplement the existing research on self-narratives with the dimension of ma-terial culture. In the workshop light was shed on the potential of dress to shape identities, to express forms of affiliation or foreignness, as well as on vestimen-tary practices. Were clothes simply purchased to be worn, to possess, and to give away as a gift or in barter trade? During the presentations and discussions it be-came clear that new insights might be gleaned if one widens the focus in self-narratives, beyond material culture to include the consideration of other sources such as trousseau inventories or account books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ergon Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059827523824,"sku":"9783956500855","price":94.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783956500855","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}