Dress Cultures in Zambia: Interwoven Histories, Global Exchanges, and Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9781009350365 / Angielski

Karen Tranberg Hansen

Opis

Drawing on half-a-century of research in Zambia, Karen Tranberg Hansen offers a vibrant, detailed account of changing dress practices from the late-colonial period to the present day. Brought to life with colour illustrations and personal anecdotes, this book examines how dress cultures engage with wider social, economic, and political issues.

Recenzje

'In this accessible, erudite, and thorough monograph, Karen Tranberg Hansen illuminates the cultural entrepreneurship through which Zambians have innovatively drawn on local knowledge, politics, and global influences to forge their sartorial culture since the colonial period to the present. Drawing on her own published and unpublished research on Zambia dating back to the early 1970s and more recently on scholarship of consumption, Hansen argues that this sartorial culture serves as a potent site on which Zambians have historically (re)negotiated class, race, and gender relations, as well as identity, status, and power. In projecting dress as a discursive space, her fascinating work showcases the centrality of sartorial practice to understanding socio-cultural and political change in Zambia and beyond. Hansen's new study will not only engage general readers, economists, historians, and students of consumption alike but, like her widely-acclaimed book, Salaula, it is also destined to become a classic contribution to the historiography of southern Africa as a whole.' Walima T. Kalusa, former Research Associate, Cambridge University

Spis treści

List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Prologue: the global world of dress in Zambia; 1. Dress practice as history; Part I. Dressing Well: 2. The migration nexus; 3. Dressing for freedom: snapshot 1. The national fabric; Part II. Dress and Undress: 4. Dress, undress, body, and nation; 5. Miniskirts and dangerous dress practice: snapshot 2. Chitenge; 6. The dramaturgy of body politics: snapshot 3. Accessories; Part III. Fashionable Transformations: Chapter 7. Youth and urban cultures of consumption: snapshot 4. Salaula; Chapter 8. Fashioning demonstrative displays:snapshot 5. 'Chinese clothes'; Chapter 9. Dressing Zambian: snapshot 6. A digital fitting room; Conclusion; References; Index.