Clothing and Difference - Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-colonial Africa - Paperback - 1996

Examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in subSaharan 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.
Year of publication: 1996
Pagination: 288 pages, 22 black and white photographs
Format: Paperback
Serie: Body, Commodity, Text