African Dress

Author : Karen Tranberg Hansen,D. Soyini Madison
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780857858207

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African Dress by Karen Tranberg Hansen,D. Soyini Madison Pdf

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.

Author : Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781621967194

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Dress in the Making of African Identity: A Social and Cultural History of the Yoruba People by Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi Pdf

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.

Author : Barbara K. Nordquist,Susan B. Aradeon,Museum of African Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Clothing and dress
ISBN : IND:30000001734239

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Traditional African Dress and Textiles by Barbara K. Nordquist,Susan B. Aradeon,Museum of African Art (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Andrea C. Abrams
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814705261

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God and Blackness by Andrea C. Abrams Pdf

Blackness, as a concept, is extremely fluid: it can refer to cultural and ethnic identity, socio-political status, an aesthetic and embodied way of being, a social and political consciousness, or a diasporic kinship. It is used as a description of skin color ranging from the palest cream to the richest chocolate; as a marker of enslavement, marginalization, criminality, filth, or evil; or as a symbol of pride, beauty, elegance, strength, and depth. Despite the fact that it is elusive and difficult to define, blackness serves as one of the most potent and unifying domains of identity. God and Blackness offers an ethnographic study of blackness as it is understood within a specific community—that of the First Afrikan Church, a middle-class Afrocentric congregation in Atlanta, Georgia. Drawing on nearly two years of participant observation and in‑depth interviews, Andrea C. Abrams examines how this community has employed Afrocentrism and Black theology as a means of negotiating the unreconciled natures of thoughts and ideals that are part of being both black and American. Specifically, Abrams examines the ways in which First Afrikan’s construction of community is influenced by shared understandings of blackness, and probes the means through which individuals negotiate the tensions created by competing constructions of their black identity. Although Afrocentrism operates as the focal point of this discussion, the book examines questions of political identity, religious expression and gender dynamics through the lens of a unique black church.

Author : Anandi Ramamurthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429685590

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Visual Culture and Decolonisation in Britain by Anandi Ramamurthy Pdf

First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisation during the period 1945 to 1970. The chapters trace the way in which different visual genres – art, film, advertising, photography, news reports and ephemera – represented and contributed to the political and social struggles over Empire and decolonisation during the mid-Twentieth century. The book examines both the direct visual representation of imperial retreat after 1945 as well as the reworkings of imperial and ‘racial’ ideologies within the context of a transformed imperialism. While the book engages with the dominant archive of artists, exhibitions, newsreels and films, it also explores the private images of the family album as well as examining the visual culture of anti-colonial resistance.

Author : Okechukwu Charles Nwafor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472054800

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Aso Ebi by Okechukwu Charles Nwafor Pdf

The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. Okechukwu Nwafor’s volume Aso ebi investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the visual and consumerist hype typical of the late capitalist system feeds this unique fashion practice. The book suggests that dress, fashion, aso ebi, and photography engender a new visual culture that largely reflects the economics of mundane living. Nwafor examines the practice’s societal dilemma, whereby the solidarity of aso ebi is dismissed by many as an ephemeral transaction. A circuitous transaction among photographers, fashion magazine producers, textile merchants, tailors, and individual fashionistas reinvents aso ebi as a product of cosmopolitan urban modernity. The results are a fetishization of various forms of commodity culture, personality cults through mass followership, the negotiation of symbolic power through mass-produced images, exchange value in human relationships through gifts, and a form of exclusion achieved through digital photo editing. Aso ebi has become an essential part of Lagos cosmopolitanism: as a rising form of a unique visual culture it is central to the unprecedented spread of a unique West African fashion style that revels in excessive textile overflow. This extreme dress style is what an individual requires to transcend the lack imposed by the chaos of the postcolonial city.

Author : Henry Rowley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Africa
ISBN : OXFORD:N10617558

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Africa Unveiled by Henry Rowley Pdf

Author : Victoria L. Rovine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253014139

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African Fashion, Global Style by Victoria L. Rovine Pdf

African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically, and demonstrates that dress styles associated with indigenous cultures may have all the hallmarks of high fashion. Taking readers into the complexities of influence and inspiration manifested through fashion, this book highlights the visually appealing, widely accessible, and highly adaptable styles of African dress that flourish on the global fashion market.

Author : Thomas Wallace Knox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : UCAL:$B568391

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In Wild Africa by Thomas Wallace Knox Pdf

Author : Jean Allman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253216892

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Fashioning Africa by Jean Allman Pdf

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.

Author : Anne-Marie Bouttiaux,Anne van Cutsem
Publisher : 5Continents
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015082677587

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African Costumes and Textiles by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux,Anne van Cutsem Pdf

Celebrating African costumes and textiles, this volume draws on historical and modern pieces from the Zaira and Marcel Mis Collection. The extraordinary works presented exemplify the craftsmanship of highly skilled African weavers and provide insight into the lives and culture of various ethnic groups. Whether the materials used are wool, cotton, silk, raffia, or bark, the patterns the weavers produce are predominantly geometric and abstract, but highly stylized figurative motifs are also found. The designs frequently illustrate excerpts from historical or mythical stories. The book presents a breathtaking variety of costumes, textiles, and accessories used for everyday wear and for special celebrations, and explores the different techniques, influences, and meanings behind these colorful works of art. The essays describe the history of the development of these techniques and the richness of the symbolism in this form of cultural heritage. The superb photography showcases the splendor of these intricate and exquisite textiles.

Author : Mami Wata
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781984860415

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AFROSURF by Mami Wata Pdf

Discover the untold story of African surf culture in this glorious and colorful collection of profiles, essays, photographs, and illustrations. AFROSURF is the first book to capture and celebrate the surfing culture of Africa. This unprecedented collection is compiled by Mami Wata, a Cape Town surf company that fiercely believes in the power of African surf. Mami Wata brings together its co-founder Selema Masekela and some of Africa's finest photographers, thinkers, writers, and surfers to explore the unique culture of eighteen coastal countries, from Morocco to Somalia, Mozambique, South Africa, and beyond. Packed with over fifty essays, AFROSURF features surfer and skater profiles, thought pieces, poems, photos, illustrations, ephemera, recipes, and a mini comic, all wrapped in an astounding design that captures the diversity and character of Africa. A creative force of good in their continent, Mami Wata sources and manufactures all their wares in Africa and works with communities to strengthen local economies through surf tourism. With this mission in mind, Mami Wata is donating 100% of their proceeds to support two African surf therapy organizations, Waves for Change and Surfers Not Street Children.

Author : Catherine E. McKinley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620403549

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The African Lookbook by Catherine E. McKinley Pdf

Winner of the African Photobook of the Year Award A Choice Outstanding Title of the Year A USA Today "Must-Read for Black History Month" An NPR "Goats and Soda" Editors' Pick A BookRiot Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year An unprecedented visual history of African women told in striking and subversive historical photographs-featuring an Introduction by Edwidge Danticat and a Foreword by Jacqueline Woodson. Most of us grew up with images of African women that were purely anthropological-bright displays of exotica where the deeper personhood seemed tucked away. Or they were chronicles of war and poverty-“poverty porn.” But now, curator Catherine E. McKinley draws on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos to present a visual history spanning a hundred-year arc (1870–1970) of what is among the earliest photography on the continent. These images tell a different story of African women: how deeply cosmopolitan and modern they are in their style; how they were able to reclaim the tools of the colonial oppression that threatened their selfhood and livelihoods. Featuring works by celebrated African masters, African studios of local legend, and anonymous artists, The African Lookbook captures the dignity, playfulness, austerity, grandeur, and fantasy-making of African women across centuries. McKinley also features photos by Europeans-most starkly, striking nudes-revealing the relationships between white men and the Black female sitters where, at best, a grave power imbalance lies. It's a bittersweet truth that when there is exploitation there can also be profound resistance expressed in unexpected ways-even if it's only in gazing back. These photos tell the story of how the sewing machine and the camera became powerful tools for women's self-expression, revealing a truly glorious display of everyday beauty.

Author : Richard Thompson Ford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781501180088

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Dress Codes by Richard Thompson Ford Pdf

A law professor and cultural critic offers an eye-opening exploration of the laws of fashion throughout history, from the middle ages to the present day, examining the canons, mores and customs of clothing rules that we often take for granted

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Africa
ISBN : MINN:31951001220344B

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African Studies Newsletter by Anonim Pdf