Fashioning Africa : power and the politics of dress

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Title:

Author:

Allman, Jean Marie.

ISBN:

9780253344151

9780253216892

Publication Information:

Bloomington, Ind. ; [Great Britain] : Indiana University Press, c2004.

Physical Description:

vi, 247 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Series:

African expressive culture

Series Title:

African expressive culture

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Fashioning Africa / Jean Allman -- Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean / Laura Fair -- Dress and politics in postWorld 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.

Subject Term:

Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects -- Africa.

Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- Africa.

Cothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Africa.

Women's clothing -- Africa.

Added Author:

Allman, Jean Marie.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0413/2004000694.html

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Summary

Everywhere in the world there is a close connection between the clothes we wear and our political expression. To date, few scholars have explored what clothing means in 20th-century Africa and the diaspora. In Fashioning Africa, an international group of anthropologists, historians, and art historians bring rich and diverse perspectives to this fascinating topic. From clothing as an expression of freedom in early colonial Zanzibar to Somali women's headcovering in inner-city Minneapolis, these essays explore the power of dress in African and pan-African settings. Nationalist and diasporic identities, as well as their histories and politics, are examined at the level of what is put on the body every day. Readers interested in fashion history, material and expressive cultures, understandings of nation-state styles, and expressions of a distinctive African modernity will be engaged by this interdisciplinary and broadly appealing volume.

Contributors are Heather Marie Akou, Jean Allman, A. Boatema Boateng, Judith Byfield, Laura Fair, Karen Tranberg Hansen, Margaret Jean Hay, Andrew M. Ivaska, Phyllis M. Martin, Marissa Moorman, Elisha P. Renne, and Victoria L. Rovine.