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1 online resource (vi, 247 pages) : illustrations |
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African expressive cultures |
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African expressive cultures.
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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 |
| Summary |
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 historians bring rich and diverse perspectives to this fascinating topic. From clothing as an expression of freedom in early colonial Zanzibar to Somali women's headcovering in inner-city Minneapolis, these essays expl |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| 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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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Beauty & Grooming.
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Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects
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Women's clothing
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Kleidung
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Mode
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Politik
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Africa
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Afrika
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| Genre/Form |
Houston (Tex., 2001)
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Kongress.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Allman, Jean Marie.
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| ISBN |
0253111048 |
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9780253111043 |
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9780253216892 |
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0253216893 |
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9780253344151 |
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0253344158 |
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9781282071803 |
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1282071807 |
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9786612071805 |
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661207180X |
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