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Fashioning Africa : power and the politics of dress /
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 historia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Ind. :
Indiana University Press,
©2004.
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| Colección: | African expressive cultures.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253111048 9780253111043 9780253216892 0253216893 9780253344151 0253344158 9781282071803 1282071807 9786612071805 661207180X |