Screen LibraryAfrican dress : fashion, agency, performance /
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Bloomsbury,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Dress, body, culture,
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| Carrier Form: | xviii, 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780857853806 (hardback) : 0857853805 (hardback) 0857853813 (paperback) 9780857853813 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | GT1580 |
| CLC: | TS941.744 |
| Call Number: | TS941.744/A258 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Dressing for success : the politically performative quality of an Igbo woman's attire / Fashionability in colonial and postcolonial Togo / Branding festive bodies : corporate logos and chiefly image T-shirts in Ghana / Bazin riche in Dakar, Senegal : altered inception, use, and wear / Fashioning people, crafting networks : multiple meanings in the Mauritanian veil (malaḥfa) / The hijab as moral space in northern Nigeria / Dressing |