| Description |
vi, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
African expressive cultures
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects -- Africa.
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Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- Africa.
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Women's clothing -- Africa.
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| Added Author |
Allman, Jean Marie.
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| ISBN |
0253216893 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0253344158 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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