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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Judith Perani; Norma Hackleman Wolff |
| ISBN: | 1859732909 9781859732908 185973295X 9781859732953 |
| OCLC Number: | 41283381 |
| Description: | vi, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Part 1: The impact of patronage on the arts of Africa -- Art patronage as a generator of cloth and dress -- Cloth and dress as a mirror of culture in Africa -- Art patron roles -- Leadership arts in state societies -- Part 2: The development of Hausa, Nupe and Yoruba cloth and dress traditions -- Historical context of leadership, trade and art patronage -- Patterns of production and consumption in nineteenth-century luxury cloth traditions -- Continuity and change in twentieth-century cloth traditions -- The fashionable world of the Yoruba -- Postscript: To put on cloth. |
| Series Title: | Dress, body, culture. |
| Responsibility: | Judith Perani and Norma H. Wolff. |
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