LEADER 04842nam 22006254 450 001 9910786809603321 005 20140819100826.0 010 $a0-8223-1791-5 010 $a0-8223-9637-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822396376 035 $a(CKB)3710000000224184 035 $a(OCoLC)891395021 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10913006 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007989 035 $a(OCoLC)1139367192 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse79770 035 $a886546684 035 $a(DE-B1597)554602 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822396376 035 $a(OCoLC)1226678843 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000224184 100 $a20140812d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aClothing and difference $eembodied identities in colonial and post-colonial Africa /$fedited by Hildi Hendrickson 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d1996. 215 $a1 online resource (283 p.) 225 1 $aBody, commodity, text 311 $a1-322-09164-1 311 $a0-8223-1783-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [245]-259) and index. 327 $tVirginity cloths and vaginal coverings in Ekiti, Nigeria /$rElisha P. Renne --$t"I dress in this fashion" : transformations in Sotho dress and womens's lives in a Sekhukhuneland village, South Africa /$rDeborah James --$tMediating threads : clothing and the texture of spirit/medium relations in Bori (Southern Niger) /$rAdeline Masquelier --$tFemale "Alhajis" and entrepreneurial fashions : flexible identities in Southeastern Nigerian cloth practice /$rMisty L. Bastian --$tDressing at death : clothing, time and memory in Buhaya, Tanzania /$rBrad Weiss --$tDressed to "shine" : work, leisure and style in Malindi, Kenya /$rJohanna Schoss --$t"Sunlight soap has changed my life" : hygiene commodification, and the body in colonial Zimbabwe /$rTimothy Burke --$tBodies and flags : the representation of Herero identity in Colonial Namibia /$rHildi Hendrickson. 330 $aThis volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the production and authentification of identity, Clothing and Difference shows how the body and its adornment have been used to construct and contest social and individual identities in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, and other African societies during both colonial and post-colonial times.Grounded in the insights of anthropology and history and influenced by developments in cultural studies, these essays investigate the relations between the personal and the public, and between ideas about the self and those about the family, gender, and national groups. They explore the bodily and material creation of the changing identities of women, spirits, youths, ancestors, and entrepreneurs through a consideration of topics such as fashion, spirit possession, commodity exchange, hygiene, and mourning.By taking African societies as its focus, Clothing and Difference demonstrates that factors considered integral to Western social development?heterogeneity, migration, urbanization, transnational exchange, and media representation?have existed elsewhere in different configurations and with different outcomes. With significance for a wide range of fields, including gender studies, cultural studies, art history, performance studies, political science, semiotics, economics, folklore, and fashion and textile analysis/design, this work provides alternative views of the structures underpinning Western systems of commodification, postmodernism, and cultural differentiation.Contributors. Misty Bastian, Timothy Burke, Hildi Hendrickson, Deborah James, Adeline Masquelier, Elisha Renne, Johanna Schoss, Brad Weiss 410 0$aBody, commodity, text. 606 $aClothing and dress$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aClothing and dress$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aClothing and dress$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan$xPsychological aspects 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan 606 $aIdentity (Psychology)$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan 615 0$aClothing and dress$xHistory 615 0$aClothing and dress$xHistory 615 0$aClothing and dress$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) 676 $a391/.00967 701 $aHendrickson$b Hildi$f1961-$01486332 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786809603321 996 $aClothing and difference$93705766 997 $aUNINA