African Dress

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.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsList of contributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University, USAPART IDressed Bodies and Power1. Dressing for Success: The Politically Performative Quality of an Igbo Woman's Attire. Misty L. Bastian, Franklin & Marshall College, USA2. Fashionability in Colonial and Postcolonial Togo. Nina Sylvanus, Northeastern University, USA3. Branding Festive Bodies: Corporate Logos and Chiefly Image T-shirts in Ghana. Lauren Adrover, Northwestern University, USAPART IIMaterial Culture, Visual Recognition, and Display4. Bazin Riche in Dakar, Senegal: Altered Inception, Use, and Wear. Kelly Kirby, University of Michigan, USA5. Fashioning People, Crafting Networks: Multiple Meanings in the Mauritanian Veil (Mala?fa). Katherine Wiley, Indiana University, USA6. The Hijab as Moral Space in Northern Nigeria. Elisha P. Renne, University of Michigan, USAPART III. Connecting Worlds through Dress7. Dressing the Colonial Body: Senegalese Rifleman in Uniform. Keith Rathbone, Northwestern University, USA8. Ghana Boys in Mali: Fashion, Youth, and Travel. Victoria L. Rovine, University of Florida, USA9. Forging Connections, Performing Distinctions: Youth, Dress, and Consumption in Niger. Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University, USA10. Fashion, Transnationality, and Swahili Men. Tina Mangieri, SIT, USAPART IVTransculturated Bodies11. Photography, Poetry, and the Dressed Bodies of Léopold Sédar Senghor. Leslie W. Rabine, University of California, Davis, USA12. Transculturated Displays: International Fashion and West African Portraiture. Candace M. Keller, Michigan State University, USA13. Spectacular Dress: Africanisms in the Fashions and Performances of Josephine Baker, 1925-1975. Bennetta Jules-Rosette, University of California, San Diego, USA14. Dressing Out-of-Place: From Ghana to Obama Commemorative Cloth on the American Red Carpet. D. Soyini Madison, Northwestern University, USAIndex

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.