ISBN:
9780253216892
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0253216893
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9780253344151
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0253344158
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0253111048
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9780253111043
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (vi, 247 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
African expressive cultures
Parallel Title:
Print version Fashioning Africa
DDC:
391/.0096
Keywords:
Clothing and dress Symbolic aspects
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Africa
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Clothing and dress Political aspects
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Africa
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Women's clothing Africa
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Clothing and dress Political aspects
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Clothing and dress Symbolic aspects
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Women's clothing
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Clothing and dress Symbolic aspects
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Clothing and dress Political aspects
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Women's clothing
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Clothing and dress ; Symbolic aspects
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Women's clothing
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Kleidung
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Mode
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Politik
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Mali
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Ghana
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Nigeria
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Angola
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Kenya
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Somalia
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Zanzibar
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Tanzania
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Zambia
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2001
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diasporas
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clothing
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female dress
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symbols of power
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textiles
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conference papers (form)
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HEALTH & FITNESS ; Beauty & Grooming
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Houston (Tex., 2001)
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Kongress
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Africa
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Afrika
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic book
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift 2001
Abstract:
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 expl
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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Fashioning Africa : power and the politics of dress
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Fashioning unity : women and dress; power and citizenship.Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean : dress, performance, and the cultural construction of a cosmopolitan Zanzibari identity
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Dress and politics in post-World War II Abeokuta (western Nigeria)
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Nationalism without a nation : understanding the dress of Somali women in Minnesota
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Dressing modern : gender, generation, and invented (national) traditions.Changes in clothing and struggles over identity in colonial western Kenya
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Putting on a pano and dancing like our grandparents : nation and dress in late colonial Luanda
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"Anti-mini militants meet modern misses" : urban style, gender, and the politics of "National Culture" in 1960s Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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From khaki to agbada : dress and political transition in Nigeria
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"Let your fashion be in line with our Ghanaian costume" : nation, gender, and the politics of cloth-ing in Nkrumah's Ghana
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Dressing dangerously : miniskirts, gender relations, and sexuality in Zambia
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African "traditions" and global markets : the political economy of fashion and identity.Fashionable traditions : the globalization of an African textile
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African textiles and the politics of diasporic identity-making
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