Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa

(Part of the Body, Commodity, Text Series)

by Hildi Hendrickson

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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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Beauty, Grooming, & Style Customs & Traditions Health Health, Fitness & Dieting Health, Fitness & Dieting History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Style & Clothing

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