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

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.Description: vi, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0253344158
  • 0253216893 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 391/.0096  22
Contents:
Fashioning Africa / Jean Allman -- Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean / Laura Fair -- Dress and politics in post-World War I I Abeokuta (western Nigeria) / Judith Byfield -- Nationalism without a nation / Heather Marie Akou -- Changes in clothing and struggles over i dentity in colonial western Kenya / Margaret Jean Hay -- Putting on a p ano and dancing like our grandparents / Marissa Moorman -- "Anti-mini m ilitants meet modern misses" / Andrew M. Ivaska -- From khaki to agbada / Elisha P. Renne -- "Let your fashion be in line with our Ghanaian co stume" / Jean Allman -- Dressing dangerously / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Fashionable traditions / Victoria L. Rovine -- African textiles and th e politics of diasporic identity-making / Boatema Boateng -- Afterword / Phyllis M. Martin.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Books - Open Access Books - Open Access MISR Library - Open Shelves 391.0096 FAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 001271296
Books - Open Access Books - Open Access MISR Library - Open Shelves 391.0096 FAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 001141984

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fashioning Africa / Jean Allman -- Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean / Laura Fair -- Dress and politics in post-World War I I Abeokuta (western Nigeria) / Judith Byfield -- Nationalism without a nation / Heather Marie Akou -- Changes in clothing and struggles over i dentity in colonial western Kenya / Margaret Jean Hay -- Putting on a p ano and dancing like our grandparents / Marissa Moorman -- "Anti-mini m ilitants meet modern misses" / Andrew M. Ivaska -- From khaki to agbada / Elisha P. Renne -- "Let your fashion be in line with our Ghanaian co stume" / Jean Allman -- Dressing dangerously / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Fashionable traditions / Victoria L. Rovine -- African textiles and th e politics of diasporic identity-making / Boatema Boateng -- Afterword / Phyllis M. Martin.

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