Clothing and difference : embodied identities in colonial and post-colonial Africa / / edited by Hildi Hendrickson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 1996 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
Disciplina | 391/.00967 |
Altri autori (Persone) | HendricksonHildi <1961-> |
Collana | Body, commodity, text |
Soggetto topico |
Clothing and dress - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History - 19th century
Clothing and dress - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History - 20th century Clothing and dress - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Psychological aspects Human body - Social aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan Identity (Psychology) - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN |
0-8223-1791-5
0-8223-9637-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Virginity cloths and vaginal coverings in Ekiti, Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- "I dress in this fashion" : transformations in Sotho dress and womens's lives in a Sekhukhuneland village, South Africa / Deborah James -- Mediating threads : clothing and the texture of spirit/medium relations in Bori (Southern Niger) / Adeline Masquelier -- Female "Alhajis" and entrepreneurial fashions : flexible identities in Southeastern Nigerian cloth practice / Misty L. Bastian -- Dressing at death : clothing, time and memory in Buhaya, Tanzania / Brad Weiss -- Dressed to "shine" : work, leisure and style in Malindi, Kenya / Johanna Schoss -- "Sunlight soap has changed my life" : hygiene commodification, and the body in colonial Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke -- Bodies and flags : the representation of Herero identity in Colonial Namibia / Hildi Hendrickson. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786809603321 |
Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 1996 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Clothing and difference : embodied identities in colonial and post-colonial Africa / / edited by Hildi Hendrickson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 1996 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
Disciplina |
391/.00967
391.00967 |
Altri autori (Persone) | HendricksonHildi <1961-> |
Collana | Body, commodity, text |
Soggetto topico |
Clothing and dress - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History - 19th century
Clothing and dress - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History - 20th century Clothing and dress - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Psychological aspects Human body - Social aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan Identity (Psychology) - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN |
0-8223-1791-5
0-8223-9637-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Virginity cloths and vaginal coverings in Ekiti, Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- "I dress in this fashion" : transformations in Sotho dress and womens's lives in a Sekhukhuneland village, South Africa / Deborah James -- Mediating threads : clothing and the texture of spirit/medium relations in Bori (Southern Niger) / Adeline Masquelier -- Female "Alhajis" and entrepreneurial fashions : flexible identities in Southeastern Nigerian cloth practice / Misty L. Bastian -- Dressing at death : clothing, time and memory in Buhaya, Tanzania / Brad Weiss -- Dressed to "shine" : work, leisure and style in Malindi, Kenya / Johanna Schoss -- "Sunlight soap has changed my life" : hygiene commodification, and the body in colonial Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke -- Bodies and flags : the representation of Herero identity in Colonial Namibia / Hildi Hendrickson. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827973603321 |
Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 1996 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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