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Patterns in circulation : cloth, gender, and materiality in West Africa / Nina Sylvanus.
Lippincott Library HD9868.T6 S95 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sylvanus, Nina, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Textile industry--Togo.
- Textile industry.
- Women textile designers--Togo.
- Women textile designers.
- Textile fabrics--Togo.
- Textile fabrics.
- Clothing and dress--Togo.
- Clothing and dress.
- Togo--Politics and government.
- Togo.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 210 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- In this book, Nina Sylvanus tells a captivating story of global trade and cross-cultural aesthetics in West Africa, showing how a group of Togolese women through the making and circulation of wax cloth became influential agents of taste and history. Traveling deep into the shifting terrain of textile manufacture, design, and trade, she follows wax cloth around the world and through time to unveil its critical role in colonial and postcolonial patterns of exchange and value production. Although most wax cloth is produced in China today, it continues to be central to the expression of West African women's identity and power. By uncovering this crucial aspect of West African material culture, she enriches our understanding of global trade, the mutual negotiations that drive it, and the how these create different forms of agency and subjectivity. Paraphrased from publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Introduction : patterns in circulation
- Fashioning the body : dressing the public self
- Archival prints : alternate histories of taste and circulation
- Branding cloth, branding nation : the Nana Benz and the materiality of power
- Flexible patterns : the Nanettes remake the market and cloth in China
- Dangerous copies : old value systems in a new economy
- Conclusion : Assigamé burning.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226397221
- 9780226397191
- 022639719X
- 022639722X
- OCLC:
- 944087579
- Publisher Number:
- 99983585119
- 40026664509
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