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The archaeology of fashion memories of worn history, secondhand objects, and material (Auto)biographies of first-generation Americans Nicole K. Rivas ; edited by Joseph H. Hancock II
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rivas, Nicole K., author.
- Series:
- Fashion and Personal Style Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Anthropology (Lived Places Publishing)
- Fashion and Personal Style Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Anthropology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
- Clothing and dress.
- Adult children of immigrants--United States.
- Adult children of immigrants.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Lived Places Publishing 2026
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using inherited garments, how is the choice of clothing significant in the context of the wearer's surroundings and culture? How does it communicate one's self-identity as a first-generation American? When we dress ourselves, we are visually narrating to the world how we wish to be seen. Therefore, styling is a form of storytelling. It provides a framework to express cultural connections and ethnic pride across place and time; the outfit tells a story. Author Nicole K. Rivas combines visual and material culture to investigate sartorial representations of self-identity from the perspective of first-generation Americans, using garments of the past through contemporary archaeological approaches. Touching on themes of memory, upbringing, culture, and autonomy, this book is ideal for students of Fashion and Personal Style, Textiles, Art, Material Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, and History
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Abstract
- Note on language
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Learning objectives
- 1 Guardians of material memory: Collecting and preserving everyday clothes as cultural heritage
- Personal wardrobes and everyday clothes as cultural heritage
- Storytelling
- What's worth preserving?
- Why do we collect clothes?
- Transforming into guardians of material memory: The archaeology of fashion
- Recommended projects/assignments/discussions
- 2 Cultivating identity through material traces
- Object biography: Using material culture to trace the origin of a garment
- Narratives: Using human history to examine intergenerational style narratives
- Stylization and self-identity: Using visual culture to create self-portraits
- Ethnographic case study: The Ovando Family Archive
- 3 The clothes we keep: The closet as a living archive
- Clothing as material culture and memory
- From necessity to choice: Inheritance and agency
- Styling as identity construction
- Garments as heirlooms and ancestral agency
- Ethnographic case study: Inheritance, memory, and professional continuity
- 4 Living archives in domestic spaces
- Intergenerational memory through objects
- Cultural and personal practice: Styling as a bridge across generations
- Threads across time: Material traces, intergenerational memory, and identity
- Epilogue: Sacred dirt and the lives carried in cloth
- Recommendations for future research
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Recommended further readings
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Description based on Publisher's website, viewed July 07, 2026
- Other Format:
- Print version The archaeology of fashion : memories of worn history, secondhand objects, and material (Auto)biographies of first-generation Americans.
- ISBN:
- 9781916985803
- 9781916985797
- OCLC:
- 1599551508
- Publisher Number:
- 10.62859/9781916985803 DOI
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