Bibliograph

Clothing and difference, embodied identities in colonial and post-colonial Africa, edited by Hildi Hendrickson

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Clothing and difference, embodied identities in colonial and post-colonial Africa, edited by Hildi Hendrickson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-259) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Clothing and difference

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

34046451

Responsibility statement

edited by Hildi Hendrickson

Series statement

Body, commodity, text

Sub title

embodied identities in colonial and post-colonial Africa

Table Of 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

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