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Creating African fashion histories : politics, museums, and sartorial practices /

"Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and as ethnographic-never as "fashion."...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Creating African Fashion Histories (Conference) Brighton, England)
Otros Autores: McGregor, JoAnn (Editor ), Akou, Heather Marie (Editor ), Stylianou, Nicola (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Creating African Fashion Histories: Politics, Museums, and Sartorial Practices / JoAnn McGregor
  • Historicizing Fashion in Western Africa: Global Linkages, Regional Markets, and Local Tastes, 1400-1850 / Jody Benjamin
  • Finding Fashion in the Museum: (Re)Assembling a Precolonial Eastern African Fashion Moment / Sarah Fee
  • Beloved, Ignored, and Contested: The Politics of Kente in Ghana since the 1960s / Malika Kraamer
  • Translocal Subjectivities, Space, and Aesthetics: The World of Nigerian Fashion / Harriet Hughes
  • Fabric in the Fashion Photography of Omar Victor Diop / Beth Buggenhagen
  • "There Was No Fashion in Morocco Before": (Re)Creating Contemporary Moroccan Fashion History / M. Angela Jansen
  • Unrest and Dress: The Symbol of the Sycamore Tree in Oromo Adornment / Peri M. Klemm
  • Stories behind the Collections and Why They Matter: Examples from Indiana University / Heather Akou
  • Refashioning Clothing Collections in South African Museums / Erica de Greef
  • Fashioning Africa: Using a New Collection of Dress to Decolonize Museum Practice / Edith Ojo, Helen Mears, and Nicola Stylianou.