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Contemporary African fashion /
Synopsis: African fashion is as diverse and dynamic as the continent and the people who live there. While experts have long recognized the importance of clothing as a marker of ethnic identity, life stages, political affiliation, and social class, they have only just begun to discover African fashio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, IN :
Indiana University Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | African expressive cultures.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction/ Suzanne Gott and Kristyne Loughran
- Part 1: Fashion Within The African Continent
- 1: Ghanaian Kaba: fashion that sustains culture / Suzanne Gott
- 2: Visual city: t ailors, creativity, and urban life in Dakar, Senegal / Joanna Grabski
- 3: Secondhand clothing and fashion in Africa / Karen Tranberg Hansen
- 4: Fashion, not weather: a rural primer of style / Elisabeth L Cameron
- 5: Contemporary wedding fashions in Lagos, Nigeria / Elisha P Renne
- Part 2: African Fashion Designers
- 6: African fashion: design, identity, and history / Victoria L Rovine
- 7: Using the past to sculpt the costume of the future: an interview with Kandioura Coulibaly / Janet Goldner
- 8: Interesting creativities: Oumou Sy's costumes in the Dakar landscape / Hudita Nura Mustafa
- 9: From cemetery to runway: dress and identity in highland Madagascar / Rebecca L Green
- Part 3: African Fashion In The Diaspora
- 10: La Sape exposed! High fashion among lower-class Congolese youth: from colonial modernity to global cosmopolitanism / Didier Gondola
- 11: Have cloth-will travel / Kristyne Loughran
- 12: Dressing Somali (some assembly required) / Heather Marie Akou
- 13: Translating African textiles into U S fashion design: Brenda Winstead and Damali Afrikan Wear / Leslie W Rabine
- Further Readings
- List of contributing authors.