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1 online resource (vi, 247 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
African expressive cultures
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African expressive cultures.
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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. |
| 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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects -- Africa.
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Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects. |
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Africa. |
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Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- Africa.
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Clothing and dress. |
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Women's clothing -- Africa.
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Women's clothing. |
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Electronic books.
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Houston (Tex., 2001)
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Kongress.
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| Added Author |
Allman, Jean Marie.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fashioning Africa. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2004 0253344158 0253216893 (DLC) 2004000694 (OCoLC)54079857 |
| ISBN |
0253111048 (electronic book) |
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9780253111043 (electronic book) |
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9780253216892 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0253216893 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780253344151 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0253344158 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0253344158 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0253216893 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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