ISBN:
9780253060112
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9780253060129
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 350 pages
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illustrations, map
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23 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Creating African fashion histories
DDC:
391.0096
Keywords:
Fashion Congresses History
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Clothing and dress Congresses History
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Museums Congresses Collection management
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Konferenzschrift 2016
Abstract:
"Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and as ethnographic-never as "fashion." Counterposing the dynamism of African fashion with museums' historic holdings thus provides a unique way of confronting ways in which coloniality persists in knowledge and institutions today. This volume breaks new ground by bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and curators to debate sources and approaches for constructing African fashion histories, and to examine their potential for decolonizing museums, fashion studies and global cultural history. Creating African Fashion Histories seeks to answer questions such as: How can researchers use museum collections to reveal traces of past self-fashioning that are obscured by racialized forms of knowledge and institutional practice? How can archival, visual, oral, ethnographic, and online sources be deployed to capture the diversity of African sartorial pasts? How can scholars and curators decolonize the Eurocentric frames of thinking encapsulated in historic collections and current curricula? Can new collections of African fashion decolonize museum practice? From Moroccan fashion bloggers to upmarket Lagos designers, the voices in this ground-breaking collection reveal fascinating histories and geographies of circulation within and beyond the continent and its diasporic communities"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Creating African Fashion Histories: Politics, Museums, and Sartorial Practices / JoAnn McGregor -- Historicizing Fashion in Western Africa: Global Linkages, Regional Markets, and Local Tastes, 1400-1850 / Jody Benjamin -- Finding Fashion in the Museum: (Re)Assembling a Precolonial Eastern African Fashion Moment / Sarah Fee -- Beloved, Ignored, and Contested: The Politics of Kente in Ghana since the 1960s / Malika Kraamer -- Translocal Subjectivities, Space, and Aesthetics: The World of Nigerian Fashion / Harriet Hughes -- Fabric in the Fashion Photography of Omar Victor Diop / Beth Buggenhagen -- "There Was No Fashion in Morocco Before": (Re)Creating Contemporary Moroccan Fashion History / M. Angela Jansen -- Unrest and Dress: The Symbol of the Sycamore Tree in Oromo Adornment / Peri M. Klemm -- Stories behind the Collections and Why They Matter: Examples from Indiana University / Heather Akou -- Refashioning Clothing Collections in South African Museums / Erica de Greef -- Fashioning Africa: Using a New Collection of Dress to Decolonize Museum Practice / Edith Ojo, Helen Mears, and Nicola Stylianou.
Note:
"This volume originated as papers presented to the conference "Creating African Fashion Histories" held at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery in Novermber 2016"
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-342) and index
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