Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa
by
Nina Sylvanus
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In this book, Nina Sylvanus tells a captivating story of global trade and cross-cultural aesthetics in West Africa, showing how a group of Togolese women—through the making and circulation of wax cloth—became influential agents of taste and history. Traveling deep into the shifting terrain of...