Clothing and Difference : Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs: Hendrickson, Hildi, 1961- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Identity (Psychology)
Human body > Social aspects.
Clothing and dress > Psychological aspects.
Clothing and dress.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Beauty & Grooming.
Identite (Psychologie) > Afrique subsaharienne.
Corps humain > Aspect social > Afrique subsaharienne.
Identity (Psychology) > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Human body > Social aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Clothing and dress > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Psychological aspects.
Clothing and dress > Africa, Sub-Saharan > History > 20th century.
Clothing and dress > Africa, Sub-Saharan > History > 19th century.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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