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Fashioning Africa : power and the politics of dress /

Everywhere in the world there is a close connection between the clothes we wear and our political expression. To date, few scholars have explored what clothing means in 20th-century Africa and the diaspora. In Fashioning Africa, an international group of anthropologists, historians, and art historia...

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Други автори: Allman, Jean Marie.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ℗♭2004.
Серия: African expressive cultures.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=147027
Подобни документи: Print version:: Fashioning Africa.
Съдържание:
  • Fashioning Africa : power and the politics of dress /
  • Jean Allman
  • Fashioning unity : women and dress; power and citizenship.
  • Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean : dress, performance, and the cultural construction of a cosmopolitan Zanzibari identity /
  • Laura Fair
  • Dress and politics in post-World War II Abeokuta (western Nigeria) /
  • Judith Byfield
  • Nationalism without a nation : understanding the dress of Somali women in Minnesota /
  • Heather Marie Akou
  • Dressing modern : gender, generation, and invented (national) traditions.
  • Changes in clothing and struggles over identity in colonial western Kenya /
  • Margaret Jean Hay
  • Putting on a pano and dancing like our grandparents : nation and dress in late colonial Luanda /
  • Marissa Moorman
  • "Anti-mini militants meet modern misses" : urban style, gender, and the politics of "National Culture" in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania /
  • Andrew M. Ivaska
  • From khaki to agbada : dress and political transition in Nigeria /
  • Elisha P. Renne
  • "Let your fashion be in line with our Ghanaian costume" : nation, gender, and the politics of cloth-ing in Nkrumah's Ghana /
  • Jean Allman
  • Dressing dangerously : miniskirts, gender relations, and sexuality in Zambia /
  • Karen Tranberg Hansen
  • African "traditions" and global markets : the political economy of fashion and identity.
  • Fashionable traditions : the globalization of an African textile /
  • Victoria L. Rovine
  • African textiles and the politics of diasporic identity-making /
  • Boatema Boateng
  • Afterword /
  • Phyllis M. Martin.