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. ...
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Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Creating African Fashion Histories: Politics, Museums, and Sartorial Practices, by Jo Ann Mc Gregor
Part I: Constructing African Fash...
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Jo Ann Mc Gregor is Professor of Human Geography, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. She is author of Crossing the Zambezi: The Politics of Landscape on a C...