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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Hansen, Karen Tranberg, Madison, D. Soyini
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Schriftenreihe:Dress, body, culture.
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Zusammenfassung: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 expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order. Drawing on innovative, interdisciplinary research by established and up and coming scholars, the book examines real life projects and social transformations that are deeply political, revolving around individual and public goals of dignity, respect, status, and morality. With its remarkable scope, this book will attract students and scholars of fashion and dress, material culture and consumption, performance studies, and art history in relation to Africa and on a global scale.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 245 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780857858207
0857858203
9780857854186
0857854186
9781306846271
1306846277
9781474280068
1474280064
ISSN:1360-466X

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