Fashioning Africa [electronic resource] : power and the politics of dress / edited by Jean Allman.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Allman, Jean Marie
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.
Subjects:
Clothing and dress > Symbolic aspects > Africa.
Clothing and dress > Political aspects > Africa.
Women's clothing > Africa.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2004 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2004 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2004 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress
Format: Electronic eBook
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
  • Dressing dangerously / Karen Tranberg Hansen
  • Fashionable traditions / Victoria L. Rovine
  • African textiles and the politics of diasporic identity-making / Boatema Boateng
  • Afterword / Phyllis M. Martin.