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African dress : fashion, agency, performance / edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen and D. Soyini Madison.

Contributor(s): Hansen, Karen Tranberg [editor of compilation.] | Madison, D. Soyini [editor of compilation.]Material type: Text

TextSeries: Dress, body, culturePublisher: London : Bloomsbury, 2013Description: xviii, 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780857853813 (pbk.) :; 9780857858207 (PDF ebook) :; 9780857854186 (ePub ebook) :Subject(s): Clothing and dress -- Africa | Fashion -- Africa | Beauty and Fashion | Beauty and FashionDDC classification: 391'.0096 Summary: Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, 'African Dress' explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimise existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order.

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Book	Paul Hamlyn Library	Paul Hamlyn Library	Floor 2	391.0096 AFR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		06117104

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, 'African Dress' explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimise existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order.

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