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1 online resource (361 p.) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Creating African Fashion Histories: Politics, Museums, and Sartorial | JoAnn McGregor -- Part I: Constructing African Fashion Histories -- 2. Historicizing Fashion in Western Africa: Global Linkages, Regional Markets, and Local Tastes, 1400-1850 | Jody Benjamin -- 3. Finding Fashion in the Museum: (Re)Assembling a Precolonial Eastern African Fashion Moment | Sarah Fee -- 4. Beloved, Ignored, and Contested: The Politics of Kente in Ghana since the 1960s | Malika Kraamer |
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Part II: Transmitting and Translating African Fashion Identities -- 5. Translocal Subjectivities, Space, and Aesthetics: The World of Nigerian Fashion | Harriet Hughes -- 6. Fabric in the Fashion Photography of Omar Victor Diop | Beth Buggenhagen -- 7. "There Was No Fashion in Morocco Before": (Re)Creating Contemporary Moroccan Fashion History | M. Angela Jansen -- 8. Unrest and Dress: The Symbol of the Sycamore Tree in Oromo Adornment -- Part III: Collecting, Curating,and Displaying Africa Fashions |
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9. Stories behind the Collections and Why They Matter: Examples from Indiana University | Heather Akou -- 10. Refashioning Clothing Collections in South African Museums | Erica de Greef -- 11. Fashioning Africa: Using a New Collection of Dress to Decolonize Museum Practice | Edith Ojo, Helen Mears, and Nicola Stylianou -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
-- The editors are senior faculty members who are both established authors in the fields of African studies, dress history, art history, and human geography. They also all have curatorial experience. -- This reflection on sources and methods is timely given the resurgence of interest in African fashion within academia, museums, and the fashion world. -- The list adds to the list in its clear and vivid exploration of a topic that resonates beyond academia and |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Museums -- Collection management.
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Clothing and dress.
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collections management.
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Clothing and dress
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Museums -- Collection management
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| SUBJECT |
Africa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001531
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Akou, Heather M
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Stylianou, Nicola
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Benjamin, Jody
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Fee, Sarah
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Kraamer, Malika
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Hughes, Harriet
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Buggenhagen, Beth A
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Jansen, M. Angela
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Klemm, Peri M
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| ISBN |
9780253060143 |
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0253060141 |
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