Clothing and difference : embodied identities in colonial and post-colonial Africa

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Hildi Hendrickson -- I. Creating Social Identities -- 1. Virginity Cloths and Vaginal Coverings in Ekiti, Nigeria - Elisha P. Renne -- 2. "I Dress in This Fashion": Transformations in Sotho Dress and Women's Lives in a Sekhukhuneland Village, South Africa - Deborah James -- 3. Mediating Threads: Clothing and the Texture of Spirit/Medium Relations in Bori (Southern Niger) - Adeline Masquelier -- II. Challenging Authority -- 4. Female "Alhajis" and Entrepreneurial Fashions: Flexible Identities in Southeastern Nigerian Clothing Practice - Misty L. Bastian -- 5. Dressing at Death: Clothing, Time, and Memory in Buhaya, Tanzania - Brad Weiss -- III. Intercultural Relations and the Creation of Value -- 6. Dressed to "Shine": Work, Leisure, and Style in Malindi, Kenya - Johanna Schoss -- 7. "Sunlight Soap Has Changed My Life": Hygiene, Commodification, and the Body in Colonial Zimbabwe - Timothy Burke -- 8. Bodies and Flags: The Representation of Herero Identity in Colonial Namibia - Hildi Hendrickson -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.