Fashioning Africa : power and the politics of dress /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Allman, Jean Marie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2004.
Series:African expressive cultures.
Subjects:
Clothing and dress > Symbolic aspects > Africa.
Clothing and dress > Political aspects > Africa.
Women's clothing > Africa.
Vêtements de femme > Afrique.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Beauty & Grooming.
Clothing and dress > Symbolic aspects
Women's clothing
Kleidung
Mode
Politik
Africa
Afrika
Houston (Tex., 2001)
Kongress.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Fashioning Africa : power and the politics of dress / Jean Allman
  • Fashioning unity : women and dress; power and citizenship. Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean : dress, performance, and the cultural construction of a cosmopolitan Zanzibari identity / Laura Fair
  • Dress and politics in post-World War II Abeokuta (western Nigeria) / Judith Byfield
  • Nationalism without a nation : understanding the dress of Somali women in Minnesota / Heather Marie Akou
  • Dressing modern : gender, generation, and invented (national) traditions. Changes in clothing and struggles over identity in colonial western Kenya / Margaret Jean Hay
  • Putting on a pano and dancing like our grandparents : nation and dress in late colonial Luanda / Marissa Moorman
  • "Anti-mini militants meet modern misses" : urban style, gender, and the politics of "National Culture" in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Andrew M. Ivaska
  • From khaki to agbada : dress and political transition in Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne
  • "Let your fashion be in line with our Ghanaian costume" : nation, gender, and the politics of cloth-ing in Nkrumah's Ghana / Jean Allman
  • Dressing dangerously : miniskirts, gender relations, and sexuality in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen
  • African "traditions" and global markets : the political economy of fashion and identity. Fashionable traditions : the globalization of an African textile / Victoria L. Rovine
  • African textiles and the politics of diasporic identity-making / Boatema Boateng
  • Afterword / Phyllis M. Martin.

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