Book(print)2013

African dress: fashion, agency, performance

In: Dress, body, culture

Hansen, Karen Tranberg

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Abstract

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 legitimise existing power structures through expressions of individual identity and the cultural and political order

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