Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-colonial Africa (Body, Commodity, Text)

by H.Hendrickson (Author), HildiHendrickson (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $36.33

  Examines 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.