{"product_id":"clothing-and-difference-9780822317913","title":"Clothing and Difference","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing from the insights of anthropology and history and influenced by developments in cultural studies, this volume investigates the relations between ideas about the self and those about the family, gender, and national groups.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An excellent book. \u003ci\u003eClothing and Difference\u003c\/i\u003e will contribute to knowledge about Africa as well as to the general topic of the communication process involved in dressing the body.”—Joanne B. Eicher, University of Minnesota\u003cbr\u003e“Innovative, rich, and engaging. This collection’s concern with how the body surface mediates constructions of identity in colonial and post-colonial Africa makes an important contribution to ongoing scholarship on the body, clothing, and consumption in anthropology, history, and cultural studies.”—Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFigures \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Hildi Hendrickson \u003cbr\u003e I. Creating Social Identities \u003cbr\u003e 1. Virginity Cloths and Vaginal Coverings in Ekiti, Nigeria \/ Elisha P. Renne \u003cbr\u003e 2. \"I Dress in This Fashion\": Transformations in \u003ci\u003eSotho\u003c\/i\u003e Dress and Women's lives in a Sekhukhuneland Village, South Africa \/ Deborah James \u003cbr\u003e 3. Mediating Threads: Clothing and the Texture of Spirit\/Medium Relations in\u003ci\u003e Bori\u003c\/i\u003e (Southern Niger) \/ Adeline Masquelier \u003cbr\u003e II. Challenging Authority \u003cbr\u003e 4. Female \"\u003ci\u003eAlhajis\u003c\/i\u003e\" and Entrepreneurial Fashions: Flexible Identities in Southeastern Nigerian Clothing Practice \/ Misty L. Bastian \u003cbr\u003e 5. Dressing at Death: Clothing, Time, and Memory in Buhaya, Tanzania \/ Brad Weiss \u003cbr\u003e III. Intercultural Relations and the Creation of Value \u003cbr\u003e 6. Dressed to \"Shine\": Work, Leisure, and Style in Malindi, Kenya \/ Johanna Schoss \u003cbr\u003e 7. \"Sunlight Soap Has Changed My Life\": Hygiene, Commodification, and the Body in Colonial Zimbabwe \/ Timothy Burke \u003cbr\u003e 8. Bodies and Flags: The Representation of Herero Identity in Colonial Namibia \/ Hildi Hendrickson \u003cbr\u003e References \u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406017995095,"sku":"9780822317913","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822317913.jpg?v=1730494259","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/clothing-and-difference-9780822317913","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}