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African Dress

Fashion, Agency, Performance


  • Bloomsbury Academic
  • by Karen Tranberg Hansen
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.

ISBN 9780857853813 | E | PB
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Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 9780857853813
Author(s) Karen Tranberg Hansen
Publication date February 2013
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 244 x 170 mm
Illustrations 40 bw.ill.
Pages 272
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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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.

African Dress

African Dress

€42.95