African dress : fashion, agency, performance / edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen and D. Soyini Madison.

Contributor(s): Series: Dress, body, culturePublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2013Description: xviii, 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780857853813 (pbk.) :
  • 9780857858207 (PDF ebook) :
  • 9780857854186 (ePub ebook) :
  • 0857853813
  • 0857858203
  • 0857854186
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23
Summary: Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, 'African Dress' explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimise existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, 'African Dress' explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimise existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order.

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