African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance - Paperback
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African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance - Paperback
$84.51
by Karen Hansen (Editor), Karen Tranberg Hansen (Editor), D. Soyini Madison (Editor)
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 legitimize existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order. Drawing on innovative, interdisciplinary research by established and up and coming scholars, the book examines real life projects and social transformations that are deeply political, revolving around individual and public goals of dignity, respect, status, and morality. With its remarkable scope, this book will attract students and scholars of fashion and dress, material culture and consumption, performance studies, and art history in relation to Africa and on a global scale.Author Biography
Karen Tranberg Hansen is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University, USA.
D. Soyini Madison is Professor of Performance Studies with affiliate appointments in the Department of Anthropology and African American Studies at Northwestern University, USA.
Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.6 x 9.5 x 6.6 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: April 11, 2013
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