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Author : Lisa Meier,Irene K.. Odotei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Akan (African people)
ISBN : 3905929341
Author : Christopher L. Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781000478556
Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, this book delves into the rich world of Ghanaian fashion, demonstrating how, over time, local dress styles and materials have been fused with global trends to create innovative, high fashion garments that reflect a distinctly Ghanaian cosmopolitanism. Ghana has a complex and diverse fashion culture which was in evidence before independence in 1957 and has continued to grow in reputation in the postcolonial period. In this book, Christopher Richards reflects on the contributions of the country’s female fashion designers, who have employed fashion to innovate existing, culturally relevant dress styles, challenge gendered forms of dress, and make bold statements regarding women’s sexuality. Treated as artworks, the book examines specific garments to illustrate the inherent complexity of their design and how fashion is often embedded with a blending of personal histories, cultural practices and global inspirations. Reflecting in particular on the works of Laura Quartey, Letitia Obeng, Juliana Kweifio-Okai, Beatrice Arthur and Aisha Ayensu, this book makes an important and timely contribution to art history, fashion studies, anthropology, history, women’s studies and African Studies. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : Rachel Naylor
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0855984317
This outstanding series provides concise and lively introductions to countries such as Ghana, and the major development issues they face. Packed full of factual information, photographs and maps, the guides also focus on ordinary people and the impact that historical, economic and environmental issues have on their lives.
Author : Nanabanyin Dadson
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Marleen de Witte
Publisher : Het Spinhuis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015055470366
One could expect traditional rituals, centered around the extended family and belief about death and ancestorship, to limit the importance of modern funerals in Asante, Ghana. However, the opposite scenario is taking place. In Asante, technological innovations like mortuaries, mass media, and electronic apparatus have given the funeral new dimensions. This illustrated book describes how the Asante shape and give meaning to burying its dead through creative interaction. The large amount of time, effort, and money that people spend on funerals not only reflect transformations in society, they also offer the Asante people opportunities to work out changing social patterns, differences between cities and villages, lifestyles and cultural preferences. Marleen de Witte is an anthropologist currently working at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam.
Author : Reverend Georgina Mensah-Brown
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781491881118
Old things are old. Why should I be bothered with old news when I am moving forward?. History belongs to those who lived it. We are also making ours. This is what some young adults would say, but from where community have reached, some might not be able to tell as to how to focus on the future. Do you know that people have been walking to school daily covering three or more miles to school and back in many places?. Can you think a child going to school barefooted as compared to our modern world?. When did the market become dry with the sale of no fish except one type of fish whether people liked it or not?. What happens when governments are overthrown only to continue facing hardships. Have you come across empty shops with essential goods being hoarded and sold in private? When there was no fashion of today, what sort of dresses were the fashion of yesterday. If you were to be in any underdeveloped country or certain parts of Africa or elsewhere, would you be able to compare where you live and why others don’t have what you have. Ghana my mother is a simple conversation to tell the younger generation in a simple conversation form, how far the country has come from the old to the new with one more step along the world to go.
Author : Patricia Levy
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761409521
This book provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Ghana. All books of the critically-acclaimed Cultures of the World® series ensure an immersive experience by offering vibrant photographs with descriptive nonfiction narratives, and interactive activities such as creating an authentic traditional dish from an easy-to-follow recipe. Copious maps and detailed timelines present the past and present of the country, while exploration of the art and architecture help your readers to understand why diversity is the spice of Life.
Author : Elvis D. Aryeh
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : JoAnn McGregor,Heather M. Akou,Nicola Stylianou
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253060143
Creating African Fashion Histories examines the stark disjuncture between African self-fashioning and museum practices. Conventionally, African clothing, textiles, and body adornments were classified by museums as examples of trade goods, art, and ethnographic materials—never as "fashion." Counterposing the dynamism of African fashion with museums' historic holdings thus provides a unique way of confronting ways in which coloniality persists in knowledge and institutions today. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and curators to debate sources and approaches for constructing African fashion histories and to examine their potential for decolonizing museums, fashion studies, and global cultural history. The editors of this volume seek to answer questions such as: How can researchers use museum collections to reveal traces of past self-fashioning that are obscured by racialized forms of knowledge and institutional practice? How can archival, visual, oral, ethnographic, and online sources be deployed to capture the diversity of African sartorial pasts? How can scholars and curators decolonize the Eurocentric frames of thinking encapsulated in historic collections and current curricula? Can new collections of African fashion decolonize museum practice? From Moroccan fashion bloggers to upmarket Lagos designers, the voices in this ground-breaking collection reveal fascinating histories and geographies of circulation within and beyond the continent and its diasporic communities.
Author : Victoria L. Rovine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253014139
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 : Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Yonatan N. Gez,Yvan Droz,Jeanne Rey,Edio Soares
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487538996
Based on comparative ethnographic research in four countries and three continents, Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility explores the notion of "religious butinage" as a conceptual framework intended to shed light on the dynamics of everyday religious practice. Derived from the French word butiner, which refers to the foraging activity of bees and other pollinating insects, this term is employed by the authors metaphorically to refer to the "to-ing and fro-ing" of believers between religious institutions. Focused on urban, predominantly Christian settings in Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, and Switzerland, Butinage examines commonalities and differences across the four case studies and identifies religious mobility as existing at the meeting points of religious-institutional rules and narratives, social norms, and individual agency and practice. Drawing on anglophone, francophone, and lusophone academic traditions, Butinage is dedicated to a dialogue between ethnographic findings and theoretical ideas, and explores how we may rethink common conceptions of religious normativity.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Ghana
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012189036
Author : Ransford Tetteh
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : UCSC:32106015337949