Dress in the making of African identity
Subtitle: a social and cultural history of the Yoruba people
By: Bukola A. Oyeniyi
Series: Cambria African studies series
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781604978995
Subjects: Yoruba (African people); Group identity; Clothing and dress; Clothing; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The provenance and use of dress in Yorubaland --; title: Dress in precolonial Yorubaland --; title: Religion, colonialism, and Yoruba dress --; title: Contemporary Yoruba dress --; title: Power politics and resistance in Yoruba dress.