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Title Fashioning Africa [electronic resource] : power and the politics of dress / edited by Jean Allman.

Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description vi, 247 p. : ill.
Series African expressive cultures
African expressive cultures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Fashioning Africa / Jean Allman -- Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean / Laura Fair -- Dress and politics in post-World War II Abeokuta (western Nigeria) / Judith Byfield -- Nationalism without a nation / Heather Marie Akou -- Changes in clothing and struggles over identity in colonial western Kenya / Margaret Jean Hay -- Putting on a pano and dancing like our grandparents / Marissa Moorman -- "Anti-mini militants meet modern misses" / Andrew M. Ivaska -- From khaki to agbada / Elisha P. Renne -- "Let your fashion be in line with our Ghanaian costume" / Jean Allman -- ressing dangerously / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Fashionable traditions / Victoria L. Rovine -- African textiles and the politics of diasporic identity-making / Boatema Boateng -- Afterword / Phyllis M. Martin.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- Africa.
Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects -- Africa.
Women's clothing -- Africa.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Allman, Jean Marie.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780253111043
0253216893 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253344158 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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