Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
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服装与差异：殖民时期和后殖民非洲的体现身份
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1998
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Hildi Hendrickson
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本书探讨了撒哈拉以南非洲地区身体、服装和身份之间的动态关系，并提出了以前几乎完全针对西方和城市背景的问题。 《服装与差异》将身体表面视为生产和验证身份的关键前沿，这一点不同寻常，它展示了在殖民和后殖民时期，在尼日利亚、津巴布韦、坦桑尼亚、肯尼亚和其他非洲社会，身体及其装饰如何被用来构建和质疑社会和个人身份。
这些文章以人类学和历史学的见解为基础，并受到文化研究发展的影响，探讨了个人与公众之间的关系，以及关于自我的观念与关于家庭、性别和民族群体的观念之间的关系。他们通过对时尚、精神占有、商品交换、卫生和哀悼等主题的思考，探索女性、精神、青年、祖先和企业家身份不断变化的身体和物质创造。
通过以非洲社会为焦点，《服装与差异》表明，被认为是西方社会发展不可或缺的因素——异质性、移民、城市化、跨国交流和媒体代表性——在其他地方也以不同的形式存在，并产生了不同的结果。这部作品对性别研究、文化研究、艺术史、表演研究、政治学、符号学、经济学、民俗学、时尚和纺织品分析/设计等广泛领域具有重要意义，为支撑西方商品化、后现代主义和文化分化体系的结构提供了另类观点。
贡献者。米斯蒂·巴斯蒂安 / 蒂莫西·伯克 / 希尔迪·亨德里克森 / 黛博拉·詹姆斯 / 艾德琳·马斯魁尔 / 伊丽莎·雷恩 / 约翰娜·肖斯 / 布拉德·韦斯
This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the production and authentification of identity, Clothing and Difference shows how the body and its adornment have been used to construct and contest social and individual identities in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, and other African societies during both colonial and post-colonial times.
Grounded in the insights of anthropology and history and influenced by developments in cultural studies, these essays investigate the relations between the personal and the public, and between ideas about the self and those about the family, gender, and national groups. They explore the bodily and material creation of the changing identities of women, spirits, youths, ancestors, and entrepreneurs through a consideration of topics such as fashion, spirit possession, commodity exchange, hygiene, and mourning.
By taking African societies as its focus, Clothing and Difference demonstrates that factors considered integral to Western social development—heterogeneity, migration, urbanization, transnational exchange, and media representation—have existed elsewhere in different configurations and with different outcomes. With significance for a wide range of fields, including gender studies, cultural studies, art history, performance studies, political science, semiotics, economics, folklore, and fashion and textile analysis/design, this work provides alternative views of the structures underpinning Western systems of commodification, postmodernism, and cultural differentiation.
Contributors . Misty Bastian, Timothy Burke, Hildi Hendrickson, Deborah James, Adeline Masquelier, Elisha Renne, Johanna Schoss, Brad Weiss