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Clothing and Difference : Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
Overview
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 and individual identities in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, and other African societies during both colonial and post-colonial times.
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- ISBN-13: 9780822317913
- ISBN-10: 0822317915
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publish Date: June 1996
- Dimensions: 9.26 x 6.02 x 0.84 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.01 pounds
- Page Count: 288
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