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African dress : fashion, agency, performance /
Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, African Dress explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimize existing power structures through expressi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2013.
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| Colección: | Dress, body, culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Karen Tranberg Hansen
- Dressing for success : the politically performative quality of an Igbo woman's attire / Misty L. Bastian
- Fashionability in colonial and postcolonial Togo / Nina Sylvanus
- Branding festive bodies : corporate logos and chiefly image T-shirts in Ghana / Lauren Adrover
- Bazin riche in Dakar, Senegal : altered inception, use, and wear / Kelly Kirby
- Fashioning people, crafting networks : multiple meanings in the Mauritanian veil (malaḥfa) / Katherine Wiley
- The hijab as moral space in northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne
- Dressing the colonial body : Senegalese rifleman in uniform / Keith Rathbone
- Ghana boys in Mali : fashion, youth, and travel / Victoria L. Rovine
- Forging connections, performing distinctions : youth, dress, and consumption in Niger / Adeline Masquelier
- Fashion, transnationality, and Swahili men / Tina Mangieri
- Photography, poetry, and the dressed bodies of Léopold Sédar Senghor / Leslie W. Rabine
- Transculturated displays : international fashion and West African portraiture / Candace M. Keller
- Spectacular dress : Africanisms in the fashions and performances of Josephine Baker, 1925-1975 / Bennetta Jules-Rosette
- Dressing out-of-place : from Ghana to Obama commemorative cloth on the USAmerican red carpet / D. Soyini Madison.