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This paper is written in preparation for the ‘Wardrobe Ethnographies’ conference to be
held in Herning in June 2011. It aims to provide a research framework that goes beyond a
catalogue of existing literature, and to provide discussion points for the conference papers.
Scholars from several different disciplines have studied wardrobes and dress practices
through a range of ethnographic and related qualitative and quantitative methods. The
aim of the conference and ensuing book is to bring together a series of papers which
combine a discussion of research approaches and methods with an ethnographic account
of research findings. We hope to make a dual argument; firstly as obbjects of study
wardrobes and dress practices can generate critical and innovative insights both at micro
and macro levels; , and secondly, that what I tentatively term wardrobe ethnographies are
a feasible and realistic research approach that is attracting scholars from different
disciplines and with different research interests. |
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