Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. I CREATING SOCIAL IDENTITIES
7. 1 Virginity Cloths and Vaginal Coverings in Ekiti, Nigeria 19
8. 2 "I Dress in This Fashion": Transformations in Sotho Dress and Women's Lives in a Sekhukhuneland Village, South Africa 34
9. 3 Mediating Threads: Clothing and the Texture of Spirit/Medium Relations in Bori (Southern Niger) 66
10. II CHALLENGING AUTHORITY
11. 4 Female "Alhajis" and Entrepreneurial Fashions: Flexible Identities in Southeastern Nigerian Clothing Practice 97
12. 5 Dressing at Death: Clothing, Time, and Memory in Buhaya, Tanzania 133
13. III INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS AND THE CREATION OF VALUE
14. 6 Dressed to "Shine": Work, Leisure, and Style in Malindi, Kenya 157
15. 7 "Sunlight Soap Has Changed My Life": Hygiene, Commodification, and the Body in Colonial Zimbabwe 189
16. 8 Bodies and Flags: The Representation of Herero Identity in Colonial Namibia 213
17. References 245
18. Notes on Contributors 260
19. Index 263