Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa

by Hildi Hendrickson

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822317915
• ISBN13: 9780822317913
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"