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African Dress by Call Number: Alden 6th fl GT1580 .A475 2013xPublication Date: 2013African dress is a fairly new area of study.
Dress As Social Relations by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781776141913Publication Date: 2018" In Dress as Social Relations, Vibeke Maria Viestad challenges this myth of the nearly naked Bushman and provides an interdisciplinary study of Bushman dress, as it is represented in the archives and material culture of historical Bushman communities. . . . Dress, she argues, formed an embodied practice of social relations between humans, animals and other powerful beings of the Bushman world; moreover, this complex and meaningful practice was intimately related to subsistence strategies and social identity. "
Fashion Cities Africa by Call Number: Alden 7th floor TT504.6.A35 F37 2016xISBN: 9781783206117Publication Date: 2016-05-15" Now, with Fashion Cities Africa, Pool aims to correct the misconceptions about African fashion, providing key context for contemporary African fashion scenes and capturing the depth and breadth of truly African fashion. "
Aso Ebi by Call Number: Alden 6th GT1589.A37 N83 2021xISBN: 9780472074808Publication Date: 2021The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. Okechukwu Nwafor's volume 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.
Not African Enough by Call Number: Alden 6th GT1586 .N68 2017ISBN: 0996704817Publication Date: 2017Fashion - Kenya -21st C
- African Commemorative Textiles: A Guide
Includes a digital collection of African cloth, glossary of fabrics, current fashion designers, and more.