Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
(Part of the Body, Commodity, Text Series)
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This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the production and authentification of identity, Clothing and Difference shows how the body and its adornment have been used to construct and contest social...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822317915
ISBN13:9780822317913
Release Date:June 1996
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"
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