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

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Superior document:African expressive cultures
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:African expressive cultures.
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Physical Description:vi, 247 p. :; ill.
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Table of 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
  • ressing dangerously / Karen Tranberg Hansen
  • Fashionable traditions / Victoria L. Rovine
  • African textiles and the politics of diasporic identity-making / Boatema Boateng
  • Afterword / Phyllis M. Martin.