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Fashioning Africa : Power and the Politics of Dress
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Fashioning Africa : Power and the Politics of Dress Paperback - 2004

by Jean Allman (Editor)

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  • Title Fashioning Africa : Power and the Politics of Dress
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press
  • Date 2004-09-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 45614133-6
  • ISBN 9780253216892 / 0253216893
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.16 x 0.66 in (23.47 x 15.65 x 1.68 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Clothing and dress - Symbolic aspects -, Clothing and dress - Political aspects -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004000694
  • Dewey Decimal Code 391.009

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First line

Dress has historically been used as one of the most important and visually immediate markers of class, status, and ethnicity in East African coastal society.

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  • Choice, 05/01/2005, Page 1647

About the author

Jean Allman is Professor of African History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is co-editor (with Susan Geiger and Nakanyike Musisi) of Women in African Colonial Histories (IUP, 2002).

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