Fashioning Africa :: power and the politics of dress /

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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Weitere Verfasser: Allman, Jean Marie
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2004.
Schriftenreihe:African expressive cultures.
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Zusammenfassung: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. From clothing as an expression of freedom in early colonial Zanzibar to Somali women's headcovering in inner-city Minneapolis, these essays expl.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 247 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0253111048
9780253111043
9780253216892
0253216893
9780253344151
0253344158
9781282071803
1282071807
9786612071805
661207180X

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