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OverviewDress 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 legitimize existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order. Drawing on innovative, interdisciplinary research by established and up and coming scholars, the book examines real life projects and social transformations that are deeply political, revolving around individual and public goals of dignity, respect, status, and morality. With its remarkable scope, this book will attract students and scholars of fashion and dress, material culture and consumption, performance studies, and art history in relation to Africa and on a global scale. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Karen Tranberg Hansen , D. Soyini Madison , Karen Tranberg HansenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 17.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9780857853813ISBN 10: 0857853813 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 28 February 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction. Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University, USA PART IDressed Bodies and Power 1. Dressing for Success: The Politically Performative Quality of an Igbo Woman's Attire. Misty L. Bastian, Franklin & Marshall College, USA 2. Fashionability in Colonial and Postcolonial Togo. Nina Sylvanus, Northeastern University, USA 3. Branding Festive Bodies: Corporate Logos and Chiefly Image T-shirts in Ghana. Lauren Adrover, Northwestern University, USA PART IIMaterial Culture, Visual Recognition, and Display 4. Bazin Riche in Dakar, Senegal: Altered Inception, Use, and Wear. Kelly Kirby, University of Michigan, USA 5. Fashioning People, Crafting Networks: Multiple Meanings in the Mauritanian Veil (Mala?fa). Katherine Wiley, Indiana University, USA 6. The Hijab as Moral Space in Northern Nigeria. Elisha P. Renne, University of Michigan, USA PART III. Connecting Worlds through Dress 7. Dressing the Colonial Body: Senegalese Rifleman in Uniform. Keith Rathbone, Northwestern University, USA 8. Ghana Boys in Mali: Fashion, Youth, and Travel. Victoria L. Rovine, University of Florida, USA 9. Forging Connections, Performing Distinctions: Youth, Dress, and Consumption in Niger. Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University, USA 10. Fashion, Transnationality, and Swahili Men. Tina Mangieri, SIT, USA PART IVTransculturated Bodies 11. Photography, Poetry, and the Dressed Bodies of Léopold Sédar Senghor. Leslie W. Rabine, University of California, Davis, USA 12. Transculturated Displays: International Fashion and West African Portraiture. Candace M. Keller, Michigan State University, USA 13. Spectacular Dress: Africanisms in the Fashions and Performances of Josephine Baker, 1925-1975. Bennetta Jules-Rosette, University of California, San Diego, USA 14. Dressing Out-of-Place: From Ghana to Obama Commemorative Cloth on the American Red Carpet. D. Soyini Madison, Northwestern University, USA IndexReviewsNot only does this multidisciplinary edited volume cast its geographic sweep as broad as a continent, it jumps into the centre of a conceptual Venn diagram. -- Siobhan Magee, University of Edinburgh, UK Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Author InformationKaren Tranberg Hansen is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University, USA. D. Soyini Madison is Professor of Performance Studies with affiliate appointments in the Department of Anthropology and African American Studies at Northwestern University, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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