Author: Adérónké Adésolá AdésànyàPublisher:
ISBN: 9780981452654
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Dress and Identity in African Cultures
Author: Adérónké Adésolá AdésànyàPublisher:
ISBN: 9780981452654
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People
Author: Bukola Adeyemi OyeniyiPublisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621967190
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is a book on the social and cultural history of Yoruba people, a people in southwest Nigeria. As the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of Yoruba dress in historical perspective, this book is an important contribution to African history in general and the Yoruba cultural history in particular. The book illuminates the impact of Christianity, Islam, and British colonialism on the construction of Yoruba identity, and how dress was entangled in that construction. It also provides insightful discussions of the transformations in dress culture since independence and demonstrates the importance of dress as a site for contesting and articulating postcolonial Yoruba identity and class structure within the Nigerian national space. This book provides many insights into these issues and is thus an invaluable addition to Africana studies, anthropology, and history.
Clothing and Difference
Author: Hildi HendricksonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822317913
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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. Grounded in the insights of anthropology and history and influenced by developments in cultural studies, these essays investigate the relations between the personal and the public, and between ideas about the self and those about the family, gender, and national groups. They explore the bodily and material creation of the changing identities of women, spirits, youths, ancestors, and entrepreneurs through a consideration of topics such as fashion, spirit possession, commodity exchange, hygiene, and mourning. By taking African societies as its focus, Clothing and Difference demonstrates that factors considered integral to Western social development--heterogeneity, migration, urbanization, transnational exchange, and media representation--have existed elsewhere in different configurations and with different outcomes. With significance for a wide range of fields, including gender studies, cultural studies, art history, performance studies, political science, semiotics, economics, folklore, and fashion and textile analysis/design, this work provides alternative views of the structures underpinning Western systems of commodification, postmodernism, and cultural differentiation. Contributors. Misty Bastian, Timothy Burke, Hildi Hendrickson, Deborah James, Adeline Masquelier, Elisha Renne, Johanna Schoss, Brad Weiss
Fashion and style as a form of social and cultural expression in South Africa
Author: Thuthula Namhla DlepuPublisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3668055270
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Intercultural Communication, grade: 85%, Monash University, South Africa Campus (Monash University), course: Communications & Cultural Studies, language: English, abstract: This paper examines choices in fashion and style as social and cultural expressions. It analyses the ghetto fabulous style, the influence of films as well as changes in clothing associated with reaching maturity. Furthermore, it takes a look at the influence of the Springbok rugby team's fan jerseys and subcultural styles.
African Identity, Yoruba Dress
Author: Bukola A. OyenyiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781604978995
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is a book on the social and cultural history of Yoruba people, a people in southwest Nigeria. As the first to provide a comprehensive treatment of Yoruba dress in historical perspective, this book is an important contribution to African history in general and the Yoruba cultural history in particular. The book illuminates the impact of Christianity, Islam, and British colonialism on the construction of Yoruba identity, and how dress was entangled in that construction. It also provides insightful discussions of the transformations in dress culture since independence and demonstrates the importance of dress as a site for contesting and articulating postcolonial Yoruba identity and class structure within the Nigerian national space. This book provides many insights into these issues and is thus an invaluable addition to Africana studies, anthropology, and history.
Fashioning Africa
Author: Jean AllmanPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253216893
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
There is a close connection between the clothes we wear and our political expression. In 'Fashioning Africa' an international group of anthropologists, historians and art historians bring rich and diverse perspectives to this fascinating topic.
Contemporary African Fashion
Author: Edith Suzanne GottPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253222567
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
African fashion is as diverse and dynamic as the continent and the people who live there. This book puts Africa at the intersection of world cultures and globalized identities, displaying the powerful creative force and impact of newly emerging styles. Richly illustrated with color photographs, this book showcases haute couture for the African continent.--[book cover].
African Dress
Author: Karen Tranberg HansenPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0857854186
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
Slaves to Fashion
Author: Monica L. MillerPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822391511
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment England to his contemporary incarnations in the cosmopolitan art worlds of London and New York. It is populated by sartorial impresarios such as Julius Soubise, a freed slave who sometimes wore diamond-buckled, red-heeled shoes as he circulated through the social scene of eighteenth-century London, and Yinka Shonibare, a prominent Afro-British artist who not only styles himself as a fop but also creates ironic commentaries on black dandyism in his work. Interpreting performances and representations of black dandyism in particular cultural settings and literary and visual texts, Monica L. Miller emphasizes the importance of sartorial style to black identity formation in the Atlantic diaspora. Dandyism was initially imposed on black men in eighteenth-century England, as the Atlantic slave trade and an emerging culture of conspicuous consumption generated a vogue in dandified black servants. “Luxury slaves” tweaked and reworked their uniforms, and were soon known for their sartorial novelty and sometimes flamboyant personalities. Tracing the history of the black dandy forward to contemporary celebrity incarnations such as Andre 3000 and Sean Combs, Miller explains how black people became arbiters of style and how they have historically used the dandy’s signature tools—clothing, gesture, and wit—to break down limiting identity markers and propose new ways of fashioning political and social possibility in the black Atlantic world. With an aplomb worthy of her iconographic subject, she considers the black dandy in relation to nineteenth-century American literature and drama, W. E. B. Du Bois’s reflections on black masculinity and cultural nationalism, the modernist aesthetics of the Harlem Renaissance, and representations of black cosmopolitanism in contemporary visual art.
The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture
Author: Heather M. AkouPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025322313X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The universal act of dressing—shared by both men and women, young and old, rich and poor, minority and majority—has shaped human interactions, communicated hopes and fears about the future, and embodied what it means to be Somali. Heather Marie Akou mines politics and history in this rich and compelling study of Somali material culture. Akou explores the evolution of Somali folk dress, the role of the Somali government in imposing styles of dress, competing forms of Islamic dress, and changes in Somali fashion in the U.S. With the collapse of the Somali state, Somalis continue a connection with their homeland and community through what they wear every day.
