Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University, USA

PART IDressed Bodies and Power
1. Dressing for Success: The Politically Performative Quality of an Igbo Woman's Attire. Misty L. Bastian, Franklin & Marshall College, USA
2. Fashionability in Colonial and Postcolonial Togo. Nina Sylvanus, Northeastern University, USA
3. Branding Festive Bodies: Corporate Logos and Chiefly Image T-shirts in Ghana. Lauren Adrover, Northwestern University, USA

PART IIMaterial Culture, Visual Recognition, and Display
4. Bazin Riche in Dakar, Senegal: Altered Inception, Use, and Wear. Kelly Kirby, University of Michigan, USA
5. Fashioning People, Crafting Networks: Multiple Meanings in the Mauritanian Veil (Mala?fa). Katherine Wiley, Indiana University, USA
6. The Hijab as Moral Space in Northern Nigeria. Elisha P. Renne, University of Michigan, USA

PART III. Connecting Worlds through Dress
7. Dressing the Colonial Body: Senegalese Rifleman in Uniform. Keith Rathbone, Northwestern University, USA
8. Ghana Boys in Mali: Fashion, Youth, and Travel. Victoria L. Rovine, University of Florida, USA
9. Forging Connections, Performing Distinctions: Youth, Dress, and Consumption in Niger. Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University, USA
10. Fashion, Transnationality, and Swahili Men. Tina Mangieri, SIT, USA

PART IVTransculturated Bodies
11. Photography, Poetry, and the Dressed Bodies of Léopold Sédar Senghor. Leslie W. Rabine, University of California, Davis, USA
12. Transculturated Displays: International Fashion and West African Portraiture. Candace M. Keller, Michigan State University, USA
13. Spectacular Dress: Africanisms in the Fashions and Performances of Josephine Baker, 1925-1975. Bennetta Jules-Rosette, University of California, San Diego, USA
14. Dressing Out-of-Place: From Ghana to Obama Commemorative Cloth on the American Red Carpet. D. Soyini Madison, Northwestern University, USA
Index

Promotional Information

Through a broad range of case studies based on pioneering research, African Dress explores key themes of fashion, the body, performance and identity. It is the first scholarly yet accessible overview of African fashion and dress practices.

About the Author

Karen Tranberg Hansen is Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University, USA.

D. Soyini Madison is Professor of Performance Studies with affiliate appointments in the Department of Anthropology and African American Studies at Northwestern University, USA.

Reviews

Not only does this multidisciplinary edited volume cast its geographic sweep as broad as a continent, it jumps into the centre of a conceptual Venn diagram.
*Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute*

This book will appeal to those interested in how people in Africa use dress and fashion to engage relentlessly and innovatively with themselves and the world. Some papers, such as the one on wax-print cloths in colonial and post-colonial Togo, could be used as interesting case studies for business school students.
*Textile Research Centre*