Fashioning Africa :
Fashioning Africa : power and the politics of dress /
edited by Jean Allman.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.
- vi, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- (African expressive cultures) .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fashioning Africa / Jean Allman -- Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean / Laura Fair -- Dress and politics in post-World 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.
0253344158 (cloth : alk. paper) 0253216893 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects--Africa.
Clothing and dress--Political aspects--Africa.
Women's clothing--Africa.
391.0096 / FAS
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fashioning Africa / Jean Allman -- Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean / Laura Fair -- Dress and politics in post-World 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.
0253344158 (cloth : alk. paper) 0253216893 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Clothing and dress--Symbolic aspects--Africa.
Clothing and dress--Political aspects--Africa.
Women's clothing--Africa.
391.0096 / FAS