""The Anthropology of Stuff"" is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative, unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project is to help spark social science imaginations and in doing so, new avenues for meaningful thought and action. Each ""Stuff"" title is a short (100 page) ""mini text"" illuminating for students the network of people and activities that create their material world. Lycra describes the development of a specific fabric, but in