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