Author: Thomas Wharton RamsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Costumes on the Western Coast of Africa
Author: Thomas Wharton RamsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Costumes on the Western Coast of Africa
Author: T. W. RamsayCostumes on the Western Coast of Africa
Author: T. W. RamsayCostumes on the Western Coast of Africa...
Author: T. W. RamsayPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781314866919
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
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Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books ... Relating to Africa and African Islands [for Sale By] Francis Edwards
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Author: First Supplementary Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute
Author: Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher: London : The Institute
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Renaissance
Author: Elizabeth CurriePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350114138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market, the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use of highly prized ingredients imported from the New World. In response to a thirst for the new, fashion's pace of change accelerated, the production of garments provided employment for an increasingly significant proportion of the working population, and entrepreneurial artisans began to transform even the most functional garments into fashionable ones. Anxieties concerning vanity and the power of clothing to mask identities heightened fears of fashion's corrupting influence, and heralded the great age of sumptuary legislation intended to police status and gender through dress. Drawing on sources from surviving garments to artworks to moralising pamphlets, this richly illustrated volume presents essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, and visual and literary representations to illustrate the diversity and cultural significance of dress and fashion in the period.
Handbook on the West African Colonies
Author: Costume and History in Highland Ecuador
Author: Ann Pollard RowePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292749856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The traditional costumes worn by people in the Andes—women's woolen skirts, men's ponchos, woven belts, and white felt hats—instantly identify them as natives of the region and serve as revealing markers of ethnicity, social class, gender, age, and so on. Because costume expresses so much, scholars study it to learn how the indigenous people of the Andes have identified themselves over time, as well as how others have identified and influenced them. Costume and History in Highland Ecuador assembles for the first time for any Andean country the evidence for indigenous costume from the entire chronological range of prehistory and history. The contributors glean a remarkable amount of information from pre-Hispanic ceramics and textile tools, archaeological textiles from the Inca empire in Peru, written accounts from the colonial period, nineteenth-century European-style pictorial representations, and twentieth-century textiles in museum collections. Their findings reveal that several garments introduced by the Incas, including men's tunics and women's wrapped dresses, shawls, and belts, had a remarkable longevity. They also demonstrate that the hybrid poncho from Chile and the rebozo from Mexico diffused in South America during the colonial period, and that the development of the rebozo in particular was more interesting and complex than has previously been suggested. The adoption of Spanish garments such as the pollera (skirt) and man's shirt were also less straightforward and of more recent vintage than might be expected.
The Heritage of Dress
Author: Wilfred Mark WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description