ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Papa Wemba, La Sape, Nonviolent Resistance
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African men who travel to european countries, paris, passion for high fashion, Purpose of sapeur to retool and re-engineering their societal position and what it means to be modern, wealthy, of status and well dressed. like a religion. do it because of their denial of power and history of oppression. A form of nonviolent resistance to colonizers" power and norms. A replacement for the social and cultural structures destroyed by colonialism. An artistic movement changes in clothing in general. Now ready made not made to your body. Present sizing= what images we are sending levi add in cambodia. Workers make a product they can never wear or afford. Add has very little focus on jeans and lots of focus on the logo. 370,000 workers in 300 sweatshops// 80% of foreign exchange issues with outsourcing/ sweatshops. How can we export labor to countries with sweatshops if we banned them ourselves in the us. How do you enforce the labor laws.
