Fashioning Africa : power and the politics of dress / edited by Jean Allman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allman, Jean Marie.

Series:

African expressive cultures.

African expressive cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress--Political aspects--Africa.

Clothing and dress.

Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects--Africa.

Women's clothing--Africa.

Women's clothing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 247 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 historians bring rich and diverse perspectives to this fascinating topic.

Contents:

Fashioning Africa / Jean Allman

Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean / Laura Fair

Dress and politics in post-World War II Abeokuta (western Nigeria) / Judith Byfield

Nationalism without a nation / Heather Marie Akou

Changes in clothing and struggles over identity in colonial western Kenya / Margaret Jean Hay

Putting on a pano and dancing like our grandparents / Marissa Moorman

"Anti-mini militants meet modern misses" / Andrew M. Ivaska

From khaki to agbada / Elisha P. Renne

"Let your fashion be in line with our Ghanaian costume" / Jean Allman

ressing dangerously / Karen Tranberg Hansen

Fashionable traditions / Victoria L. Rovine

African textiles and the politics of diasporic identity-making / Boatema Boateng

Afterword / Phyllis M. Martin.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1282071807

0253111048

9780253111043

OCLC:

567996866