Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion, vol. 1 : Africa
Entry/Object ID
GT507.E54 2010 v.1
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Suzanne Stassevitch
Notes
Gift of Suzanne Stassevitch, August 2022.
Lexicon
Search Terms
clothing and dress--africa, fashion--africa
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Book
Book Details
Editor
Joanne B. Eicher, Doran H. Ross
Volume/Number/Issue
Vol. 1
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Place Published
City
Oxford, New York
Date Published
2010
ISBN
9780199757282, 0199757283
Notes
Length: 585
General Notes
Note Type
Contents
Note
Part 1. Overview of dress and fashion in Africa : Introduction : The study of African dress / Joanne B. Eicher and Doran H. Ross -- Climatic zones and cultural regions / Philip W. Porter -- Part 2. History of dress and fashion in Africa : Archaeological evidence / Fred T. Smith -- Photographic and other visual sources / Christraud M. Geary -- Prehistory to colonialism / Marie-Amy Mbow -- Colonialism to independence / Heather Marie Akou -- Snapshot : Heads of state and dress / Suzanne Gott -- Fashion in African dress / Victoria L. Rovine ; African fashion designers -- Part 3. Types of dress in Africa : Body and beauty / Babatunde Lawal -- Body modification and body art / Lisa Aronson -- Jewelry / Kristyne Loughran -- Headdresses and hairdos / Mary Jo Arnoldi -- Beads and beadwork / Sandra Klopper -- Footwear / Doran H. Ross -- Masquerade, theatre, dance costumes / Herbert M. Cole -- Children's masquerade costumes / Simon Ottenberg -- Part 4. African textiles : North Africa / Fred T. Smith -- West Africa / Lisa Aronson -- East Africa / Sandra Klopper and Rehema Nchimbi -- Southern Africa / Juliette Leeb-du Tiot -- Part 5. North Africa : Algeria / Judith Scheele -- Egypt: historical dress / Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood and Tineke Rooijakkers -- Dress in Egypt in the twentieth century / Betty Wass El-Wakil -- Snapshot : Dance costumes / Margaret A. Deppe -- Snapshot : Libya / Doran H. Ross -- Morocco / Cynthia J. Becker -- Tunisia / Meriem Chida -- Mauritania and Western Sahara / Hudita Nura Mustafa -- Part 6. West Africa : Benin / Joseph C.E. Adande -- Burkina Faso / Christopher D. Roy -- Senegal and Gambia / Hudita Nura Mustafa -- Snapshot : Designer Oumou Sy / Hudita Nura Mustafa -- Ghana / Doran H. Ross : Snapshot : Asantehene Nana Osei Bonsu (r.1804-1823) -- Guinea / Mohamed N'Daou -- Guinea-Bissau / Walter Hawthorne and Clara Carvalho -- Côte d'Ivoire / Barbara Sumberg and Remi Douah : Snapshot : Miss Zahui and Tapa -- Liberia / Jane Martin -- Mali / Mary Jo Arnoldi -- Niger / Kristyne Loughran -- Nigeria overview / John Picton -- Yoruba in Nigeria and diaspora / Rowland Abiodun -- Hausa in Nigeria and diaspora / Norma H. Wolff -- Igbo in Nigeria and diaspora / Herbert M. Cole -- The Kingdom of Benin / Kathy Curnow -- Lower Niger Delta peoples and diaspora / Martha G. Anderson and E.J. Alagoa -- Snapshot : Kalabari peoples of Nigeria / Joanne B. Eicher -- The Nigerian fashion scene / LaRay Denzer : Shade Thomas-Fahm (b.1933) -- Sierra Leone / Frederick John Lamp : Snapshot : Sierra Leone: dress and undress -- Togo / Agbenyega Adadze -- Cameroon / Christraud M. Geary -- Part 7. Central Africa : Central African Republic / Michelle Kisliuk and Justin Serge Mongosso -- Chad / Kristyne Loughran -- Republic of Congo and Democratic Republic of Congo / Elisabeth L. Cameron : Snapshot : Le Sape ; Snapshot : Negotiating identity -- Mangbetu dress / Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim -- Kuba dress and textiles / Elisabeth L. Cameron -- Equatorial Guinea / Enrique Okenve -- Gabon / Judith Knight and Rachel Jean-Baptiste -- Fang of Equatorial Guinea and Gabon / Louis P. Perrois, translated by Francine Farr -- Part 8. Horn of Africa : Ethiopia / Peri M. Klemm -- Snapshot : Eritrea / Peri M. Klemm -- Somalia / Heather Marie Akou : Snapshot : Cultural crosscurrents in Somalia -- Snapshot : Djibouti / Peri M. Klemm -- Sudan / Susan M. Kenyon -- Part 9. East Africa : Madagascar / John Mack -- Tanzania / Sandra Klopper and Rehema Nchimbi -- Snapshot : Kanga / Thadeus Shio -- Kenya / Corinne A. Kratz -- Uganda / Venny Nakazibwe and Sylvia Nannyonga-Tamusuza -- Rwanda and Burundi / Michele D. Wagner -- Part 10. Southern Africa : Angola / Manuel Jordán Pérez -- Botswana / Deborah Durham -- Lesotho / Gary van Wyk -- Malawi / Barbara W. Blackmun -- Mozambique / Kathleen Sheldon : Capulanas -- Namibia / Hildi Hendrickson -- South Africa overview / Patricia Davison -- Nguni, Zulu, and Xhosa dress and beadwork / Gary van Wyk -- Pedi, Ndebele, and Ntwane dress and beadwork / Sandra Klopper -- Tsonga dress and fashion / Rayda Becker -- Migrant workers, production, and fashion / Sandra Klopper and Fiona Rankin Smith -- Women's cooperatives and self-help artists / Kimberly Miller and Brenda Schmahman -- Swaziland / Lombuso Khoza -- Zambia / Ruth Kerkham Simbao -- Zimbabwe / William J. Dewey.
