File(s) not publicly available
Creating African fashion histories: politics, museums and sartorial practices
book
posted on 2023-06-10, 04:33 authored by Heather Akou, JoAnn McGregorJoAnn McGregor, Nicola StylianouCreating 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. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and curators to debate sources and approaches for constructing African fashion histories and to examine their potential for decolonizing museums, fashion studies, and global cultural history. The editors of this volume seek to answer questions such as: How can researchers use museum collections to reveal traces of past self-fashioning that are obscured by racialized forms of knowledge and institutional practice? How can archival, visual, oral, ethnographic, and online sources be deployed to capture the diversity of African sartorial pasts? How can scholars and curators decolonize the Eurocentric frames of thinking encapsulated in historic collections and current curricula? Can new collections of African fashion decolonize museum practice? From Moroccan fashion bloggers to upmarket Lagos designers, the voices in this ground-breaking collection reveal fascinating histories and geographies of circulation within and beyond the continent and its diasporic communities.
History
Publication status
- Published
Publisher
Indiana University PressPages
360.0Place of publication
Indiana, USAISBN
9780253060129Department affiliated with
- Geography Publications
Notes
his is an edited book edited by Heather Akou, Joann McGregor, Nicola StylianouFull text available
- No
Editors
Heather Akou, Joann McGregor, Nicola StylianouLegacy Posted Date
2022-09-01Usage metrics
Categories
No categories selectedKeywords
Licence
Exports
RefWorks
BibTeX
Ref. manager
Endnote
DataCite
NLM
DC