Aso ebi. Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa, Paperback - Charles Okechukwu Okey Nwafor

The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. This book investigates...

Until 1893, Mary Kingsley lived the typical life of a single Victorian woman, tending to sick relatives and keeping house for her brother. However,...

Reducere. Africa has a way of luring you in, Scott Corey writes in the opening lines of Whistling for Hippos. It begins with a flash of dark eyes in the fire...

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DescriptionAnthropologists have examined how diverse human populations modify and dress their bodies since the earliest days of the discipline. The...

Whether you're investigating fashion as a material object, an abstract idea, a social phenomenon, or a commercial system, qualitative techniques ca...

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DescriptionAttitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression,...

The sacred texts of Ifa, repository of the accumulated wisdom of countless generations of Yoruba people, are an invaluable source not only for all ...

DescriptionFashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps ...

DescriptionThe Dress Detective is the first practical guide to analyzing fashion objects, clearly demonstrating how their close analysis can enhanc...

Reducere. Every single person occupies a point in the planet earth. Everyone belongs to a community of persons which starts with one's family and roots. This...

This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It prov...

Representing a significant re-examination of the Tarikh al-fattash, proved to be one the most important nineteenth-century sources for the history ...

DescriptionFashion is ever-changing, and while some styles mark a dramatic departure from the past, many exhibit subtle differences from year to ye...

Imaging Culture is a sociohistorical study of the meaning, function, and aesthetic significance of photography in Mali, West Africa, from the 1930s...

Reducere. Neil Peart's travel memoir of thoughts, observations, and experiences as he cycles through West Africa, reveals the subtle, yet powerful writing st...

Publisher: Jeppestown PressAuthor(s): Muriel R. TewIllustration(s): 15 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 232 x...

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Examines how the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) can achieve its development and stability objectives, improve the livelihood of i...

This lively collection comes from West Africa, a place 'where stories grow on trees'. Here are the famous tricksters: Hare, Tortoise, and the great...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world...

This book focuses on cultural practices and policy for sustainable development in West Africa across different artistic disciplines, including perf...

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Publisher: RCC Pilotage FoundationAuthor(s): Ed WheelerIllustration(s): 143 coloured illustrations & chartletsNumber of pages: 134Publication date:...

A unique collection examining the African urban experience, with a special focus on the causes, consequences and power dynamics of urban inequality...

This book examines the ways in which luxury fashion brands use their heritage in their digital storytelling and marketing.Publisher: Taylor & Franc...

Reducere. The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670 brings together a collection of documents - all in new English translation - that illustrate aspects of th...

Reducere. In Neocolonialism in West Africa, author Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, a journalist and political activist in Sierra Leone, demonstrates that imperial powe...

Publisher: TROPZAMAuthor(s): G. C. CookIllustration(s): illustratedNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 237 x 165 x 17Cover type: ...

Reducere. Zomo the rabbit, a trickster from West Africa, wants wisdom. But he must accomplish three apparently impossible tasks before Sky God will give him ...

Are you a researcher struggling to mine and make sense of a mountain of fashion data? Are you interested in learning about how digital methods and ...

Provides students with techniques, tools and inspiration to master their visual research skills and make the research that they undertake more effe...

DescriptionThe moving image has become a key marketing tool for luxury fashion, central in enabling brands to shape their visual codes and extend t...

Reducere. Hebrewisms of West Africa

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Yuniya (Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, USA) KawamuraNumber of pages: 176Publication date...

Description"What would Rapunzel wear if she was a real girl?" This is the question that launched author and influencer Leslie Kay's first look on h...

The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once f...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 16 colour and 61 bw illusNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 232 x 30C...

Watercolor is a wonderful medium for figure and fashion as it creates loose, impressionistic results that capture the essence of a look without get...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingBy the mid-15th century the Byzan...

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This Element closely examines Eden's assembly and framing of these accounts, engaging with issues of material culture, travel writing, new knowledg...

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Reducere. From the time he wakes up until the time he goes to sleep, Yaya is constantly on the move. Everyone knows Yaya, and everyone calls out to him as he...

Reducere. This book provides a fascinating summary of African history over 5000 years, from the Stone Age to the classical Greek and Roman era, through the '...