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Cover -- Seaweed: A Global History -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Beginnings: Hiding in Plain Sight -- 2. Seaweed in Japan -- 3. Seaweed in China and Korea -- 4. Seaweed in the Pacific and the Americas -- 5. Seaweed in Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland and Scandinavia -- Afterword: The Future is Seaweed -- Recipes -- References -- Select Bibliography -- Websites and Associations -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements -- Index

1. Introduction : Lycra, the ethnographic moment and the anthropology of stuff -- 2. Dupont : culture, kinship and myth -- 3. Dupont's family of fibers and the birth of Lycra -- 4. Launching Lycra -- 5. Lycra, aerobics and the rise of the legging -- 6. Another ethnographic moment.

This book describes the development of a specific fabric, but in the process provides students with rare insights into U.S. corporate history, the changing image of women in America, and how a seemingly doomed product came to occupy a position never imagined by its inventors and contained in the wardrobe of virtually every American. Discusses the story of the relationship between technology, science and society over the past half a century.

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