Fashioning Africa power and the politics of dress / [electronic resource] :
edited by Jean Allman.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.
- vi, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- African expressive cultures .
- African expressive cultures. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fashioning Africa / Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean / Dress and politics in post-World War II Abeokuta (western Nigeria) / Nationalism without a nation / Changes in clothing and struggles over identity in colonial western Kenya / Putting on a pano and dancing like our grandparents / "Anti-mini militants meet modern misses" / From khaki to agbada / "Let your fashion be in line with our Ghanaian costume" / ressing dangerously / Fashionable traditions / African textiles and the politics of diasporic identity-making / Afterword / Jean Allman -- Laura Fair -- Judith Byfield -- Heather Marie Akou -- Margaret Jean Hay -- Marissa Moorman -- Andrew M. Ivaska -- Elisha P. Renne -- Jean Allman -- Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Victoria L. Rovine -- Boatema Boateng -- Phyllis M. Martin.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Clothing and dress--Political aspects--Africa.
Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects--Africa.
Women's clothing--Africa.
Electronic books.
GT1580 / .F37 2004eb
391/.0096
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fashioning Africa / Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean / Dress and politics in post-World War II Abeokuta (western Nigeria) / Nationalism without a nation / Changes in clothing and struggles over identity in colonial western Kenya / Putting on a pano and dancing like our grandparents / "Anti-mini militants meet modern misses" / From khaki to agbada / "Let your fashion be in line with our Ghanaian costume" / ressing dangerously / Fashionable traditions / African textiles and the politics of diasporic identity-making / Afterword / Jean Allman -- Laura Fair -- Judith Byfield -- Heather Marie Akou -- Margaret Jean Hay -- Marissa Moorman -- Andrew M. Ivaska -- Elisha P. Renne -- Jean Allman -- Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Victoria L. Rovine -- Boatema Boateng -- Phyllis M. Martin.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Clothing and dress--Political aspects--Africa.
Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects--Africa.
Women's clothing--Africa.
Electronic books.
GT1580 / .F37 2004eb
391/.0096