Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Virginity cloths and vaginal coverings in Ekiti, Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne
  • "I dress in this fashion" : transformations in Sotho dress and womens's lives in a Sekhukhuneland village, South Africa / Deborah James
  • Mediating threads : clothing and the texture of spirit/medium relations in Bori (Southern Niger) / Adeline Masquelier
  • Female "Alhajis" and entrepreneurial fashions : flexible identities in Southeastern Nigerian cloth practice / Misty L. Bastian
  • Dressing at death : clothing, time and memory in Buhaya, Tanzania / Brad Weiss
  • Dressed to "shine" : work, leisure and style in Malindi, Kenya / Johanna Schoss
  • "Sunlight soap has changed my life" : hygiene commodification, and the body in colonial Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke
  • Bodies and flags : the representation of Herero identity in Colonial Namibia / Hildi Hendrickson.