TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allman,Jean
TI  - Fashioning Africa: power and the politics of dress 
SN  - 0253344158 (cloth : alk. paper)
U1  - 391.0096 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Clothing and dress
KW  - Symbolic aspects
KW  - Africa
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Women's clothing
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0413/2004000694.html
ER  -