eBook, ePUB

African Dress (eBook, ePUB)

Fashion, Agency, Performance

Redaktion: Hansen, Karen Tranberg; Madison, D. Soyini

Beschreibung

Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, African Dress explores how ideas and practices of dress contest or legitimize existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order. Drawing on innovative, interdisciplinary research by established and up and coming scholars, the book examines real life projects and social transformations that are deeply political, revolving around individual and public goals of dignity, respect, status, and morality. With its remarkable scope, this book will attract students and scholars of fashion and dress, material culture and consumption, performance studies, and art history in relation to Africa and on a global scale.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 6.29MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Karen Tranberg Hansen is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University, USA. D. Soyini Madison is Professor of Performance Studies with affiliate appointments in the Department of Anthropology and African American Studies at Northwestern University, USA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857854186
• Artikelnr.: 39478165

Rezensionen

Not only does this multidisciplinary edited volume cast its geographic sweep as broad as a continent, it jumps into the centre of a conceptual Venn diagram. Siobhan Magee, University of Edinburgh, UK Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute