Clothing and difference : embodied identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
Entry/Object ID
GT1580.C56
Description
Examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing from the insights of anthropology and history and influenced by developments in cultural studies, this volume investigates the relations between ideas about the self and those about the family, gender, and national groups.
Lexicon
Search Terms
clothing and dress--africa, costume--africa, costume--sub-saharan africa, human body--social aspects, identity (psychology)
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Book
Book Details
Author
Hildi Hendrickson
Publisher
Duke University Press
Place Published
City
Durham
Date Published
1996
Call No.
GT1580.C56
ISBN
822317915, 9780822317913
LCCN
95053957
Notes
Length: 268
General Notes
Note Type
Contents
Note
Virginity cloths and vaginal coverings in Ekiti, Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne --
"I dress in this fashion" : transformations in Sotho dress and womens's lives in a Sekhukhuneland village, South Africa / Deborah James --
Mediating threads : clothing and the texture of spirit/medium relations in Bori (Southern Niger) / Adeline Masquelier --
Female "Alhajis" and entrepreneurial fashions : flexible identities in Southeastern Nigerian cloth practice / Misty L. Bastian --
Dressing at death : clothing, time and memory in Buhaya, Tanzania / Brad Weiss --
Dressed to "shine" : work, leisure and style in Malindi, Kenya / Johanna Schoss --
"Sunlight soap has changed my life" : hygiene commodification, and the body in colonial Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke --
Bodies and flags : the representation of Herero identity in Colonial Namibia / Hildi Hendrickson.
