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

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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

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780857853813 (pbk.) :
9780857858207 (PDF ebook) :
9780857854186 (ePub ebook) :
0857853813
0857858203
0857854186

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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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Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
2 week loan	Hockney Library Main Floor	391.0096/AFR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		7412209872

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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