| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 245 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
Dress, body, culture, 1360-466X |
|
Dress, body, culture.
|
| Contents |
Introduction / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Dressing for success : the politically performative quality of an Igbo woman's attire / Misty L. Bastian -- Fashionability in colonial and postcolonial Togo / Nina Sylvanus -- Branding festive bodies : corporate logos and chiefly image T-shirts in Ghana / Lauren Adrover -- Bazin riche in Dakar, Senegal : altered inception, use, and wear / Kelly Kirby -- Fashioning people, crafting networks : multiple meanings in the Mauritanian veil (malaḥfa) / Katherine Wiley -- The hijab as moral space in northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- Dressing the colonial body : Senegalese rifleman in uniform / Keith Rathbone -- Ghana boys in Mali : fashion, youth, and travel / Victoria L. Rovine -- Forging connections, performing distinctions : youth, dress, and consumption in Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- Fashion, transnationality, and Swahili men / Tina Mangieri -- Photography, poetry, and the dressed bodies of Léopold Sédar Senghor / Leslie W. Rabine -- Transculturated displays : international fashion and West African portraiture / Candace M. Keller -- Spectacular dress : Africanisms in the fashions and performances of Josephine Baker, 1925-1975 / Bennetta Jules-Rosette -- Dressing out-of-place : from Ghana to Obama commemorative cloth on the USAmerican red carpet / D. Soyini Madison |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Clothing and dress -- Africa
|
|
Fashion -- Africa
|
|
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
|
|
Material culture.
|
|
Fashion & society.
|
|
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Beauty & Grooming.
|
|
Clothing and dress
|
|
Fashion
|
|
Africa
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Hansen, Karen Tranberg.
|
|
Madison, D. Soyini.
|
| ISBN |
9780857858207 |
|
0857858203 |
|
9780857854186 |
|
0857854186 |
|
9781306846271 |
|
1306846277 |
|
9781474280068 |
|
1474280064 |
|
