LibGuides: ARTD 3136: African Fashion, Textiles and Personal Adornment: An Introduction

Schedule

Aug. 28: Review syllabus and overview of course

Sept 2: Labor Day Holiday (Monday) – College closed

LAST DAY TO ADD A COURSE

Sept. 4: The Power of the “Dressed” and “Undressed” Body

Bastian “The Naked and the Nude” in Dirt, Undress and Difference

Comaroff “The Empire’s Old Clothes” in Cross-Cultural Consumption

Hendrickson “Introduction” in Clothing and Difference, pp. 1-16.

Sept. 5 (Thursday, Monday Schedule): Classic African Dress – An Introduction

Gillow, Selections from “African Textiles”

Giuntini “West African Cloth: Techniques and Traditions”

Bastian: The Naked and the Nude
Bastian, Misty L. "The Naked and the Nude: Historically Multiple Meanings of "oto" (undress) in Southeastern Nigeria." Dirt, Undress, and Difference : Critical Perspectives on the Body's Surface. (2005). 34-60.
Giuntini “West African Cloth: Techniques and Traditions”
In: LaGamma, Alisa, and Christine Giuntini. The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008. 25-35..

Cross-Cultural Consumption by David Howes (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415138895
Jean Comaroff, The empire's old clothes : fashioning the colonial subject. In: Howes, David. Cross-cultural Consumption: Global Markets, Local Realities. London: Routledge, 1996.
Introduction to: Clothing and Difference by Hildi Hendrickson (Editor)
ISBN: 9780822317838
Hendrickson, Hildi. Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996. Print.
Selections from African Textiles by John Gillow
ISBN: 9780500292211
Gillow, John. African Textiles: Colour and Creativity Across a Continent. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003.