"An excellent book. "Clothing and Difference" will contribute to knowledge about Africa as well as to the general topic of the communication process involved in dressing the body."--Joanne B. Eicher, University of Minnesota
"An excellent book. "Clothing and Difference" will contribute to knowledge about Africa as well as to the general topic of the communication process involved in dressing the body."--Joanne B. Eicher, University of Minnesota
Figures Acknowledgments Introduction / Hildi Hendrickson I. Creating Social Identities 1. Virginity Cloths and Vaginal Coverings in Ekiti, Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne 2. "I Dress in This Fashion": Transformations in Sotho Dress and Women's lives in a Sekhukhuneland Village, South Africa / Deborah James 3. Mediating Threads: Clothing and the Texture of Spirit/Medium Relations in Bori (Southern Niger) / Adeline Masquelier II. Challenging Authority 4. Female "Alhajis" and Entrepreneurial Fashions: Flexible Identities in Southeastern Nigerian Clothing Practice / Misty L. Bastian 5. Dressing at Death: Clothing, Time, and Memory in Buhaya, Tanzania / Brad Weiss III. Intercultural Relations and the Creation of Value 6. Dressed to "Shine": Work, Leisure, and Style in Malindi, Kenya / Johanna Schoss 7. "Sunlight Soap Has Changed My Life": Hygiene, Commodification, and the Body in Colonial Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke 8. Bodies and Flags: The Representation of Herero Identity in Colonial Namibia / Hildi Hendrickson References Notes on Contributors Index
Figures Acknowledgments Introduction / Hildi Hendrickson I. Creating Social Identities 1. Virginity Cloths and Vaginal Coverings in Ekiti, Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne 2. "I Dress in This Fashion": Transformations in Sotho Dress and Women's lives in a Sekhukhuneland Village, South Africa / Deborah James 3. Mediating Threads: Clothing and the Texture of Spirit/Medium Relations in Bori (Southern Niger) / Adeline Masquelier II. Challenging Authority 4. Female "Alhajis" and Entrepreneurial Fashions: Flexible Identities in Southeastern Nigerian Clothing Practice / Misty L. Bastian 5. Dressing at Death: Clothing, Time, and Memory in Buhaya, Tanzania / Brad Weiss III. Intercultural Relations and the Creation of Value 6. Dressed to "Shine": Work, Leisure, and Style in Malindi, Kenya / Johanna Schoss 7. "Sunlight Soap Has Changed My Life": Hygiene, Commodification, and the Body in Colonial Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke 8. Bodies and Flags: The Representation of Herero Identity in Colonial Namibia / Hildi Hendrickson References Notes on Contributors Index
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