Clothing and difference : embodied identities in colonial and post-colonial Africa

Clothing and difference : embodied identities in colonial and post-colonial Africa / edited by Hildi Hendrickson.

Other author/creator	Hendrickson, Hildi, 1961-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.
Description	viii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Costume--Africa, Sub-Saharan --History --19th century. Costume--Africa, Sub-Saharan --History --20th century. Costume--Africa, Sub-Saharan --Psychological aspects. Human body--Social aspects --Africa, Sub-Saharan. Identity (Psychology)--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Series	Body, commodity, text Body, commodity, text. ^A373707
Contents	Virginity cloths and vaginal coverings in Ekiti, Nigeria -- "I dress in this fashion": transformations in Sotho dress and womens's lives in a Sekhukhuneland village, South Africa -- Mediating threads: clothing and the texture of spirit/medium relations in Bori -- Female "Alhajis" and entrepreneurial fashions: flexible identities in Southeastern Nigerian cloth practice -- Dressing at death: clothing, time and memory in Buhaya, Tanzania -- Dressed to "shine": work, leisure and style in Malindi, Kenya -- "Sunlight soap has changed my life": hygiene commodification, and the body in colonial Zimbabwe -- Bodies and flags: the representation of Herero identity in Colonial Namibia.
Local note	Little-327721--305131021631Q
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.
LCCN	95053957
ISBN	0822317915 (paper : alk. paper)
ISBN	0822317834 (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	GT1580 .C56 1996	✔ Available	Place Hold