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Clothing and Difference : Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa /
This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the productio...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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.