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- ISBN 9780520290976
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Oct 2016
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Fashion knockoffs are everywhere. Even in the out-of-the-way markets of highland Guatemala, fake branded clothes offer a cheap, stylish alternative for people who cannot afford high-priced originals. Fashion companies have taken notice, ensuring that international trade agreements include stronger intellectual property protections to prevent brand "piracy." In Regulating Style, Kedron Thomas approaches the fashion industry from the perspective of indigenous Maya people who make and sell knockoffs, asking why they copy and wear popular brands, how they interact with legal frameworks and state institutions that criminalize their livelihood, and what is really at stake for fashion companies in the global regulation of style.
Kedron Thomas is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. She is coeditor, with Kevin Lewis O'Neill, of Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala.
