Format:
Online-Ressource (vi, 247 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0253344158
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0253216893
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9780253111043
Series Statement:
African expressive cultures
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; TOC; Acknowledgments; Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress; 1. Remaking Fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean: Dress,Performance, and the Cultural Construction of a CosmopolitanZanzibari Identity; 2. Dress and Politics in Post-World War II Abeokuta (WesternNigeria); 3. Nationalism without a Nation: Understanding the Dress of SomaliWomen in Minnesota; 4. Changes in Clothing and Struggles over Identity in ColonialWestern Kenya; 5. Putting on a Pano and Dancing Like Our Grandparents: Nation andDress in Late Colonial Luanda
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6. "Anti-mini Militants Meet Modern Misses": Urban Style, Gender,and the Politics of "National Culture" in 1960s Dar es Salaam,Tanzania7. From Khaki to Agbada: Dress and Political Transition inNigeria; 8. "Let Your Fashion Be in Line with Our Ghanaian Costume": Nation,Gender, and the Politics of Cloth-ing in Nkrumah's Ghana; 9. Dressing Dangerously: Miniskirts, Gender Relations, and Sexualityin Zambia; 10. Fashionable Traditions: The Globalization of an African Textile; 11. African Textiles and the Politics of Diasporic Identity-Making; Afterword; List of Contributors; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253344151
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fashioning Africa : Power and the Politics of Dress
Language:
English
