Patterns in Circulation
Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Patterns in Circulation
1 Fashioning the Body: Dressing the Public Self
2 Archival Prints: Alternate Histories of Taste and Circulation
3 Branding Cloth, Branding Nation: The Nana Benz and the Materiality of Power
4 Flexible Patterns: The Nanettes Remake the Market and Cloth in China
5 Dangerous Copies: Old Value Systems in a New Economy
Conclusion: Assigamé Burning
Notes
Bibliography
Index
African Studies Association UK: Fage & Oliver Prize
Short Listed
Pernal Family: Pernal Prize in African History
Short Listed
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Art: Middle Eastern, African, and Asian Art
History: African History
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