Tailoring Identities
Tailoring Identities
Craft, Technology, and Style in Benin, West Africa
Fretwell, Elizabeth Ann
Indiana University Press
03/2026
294
Mole
Inglês
9780253075352
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tailoring Identities
1. Wrapped and Draped: Making Clothing in the Dahomey Kingdom
2. Fitting Changes: The Sartorial Economy and the Tailored Silhouette
3. Tailoring Men: Mobility, Modernity, and Men's Fashions in the Era of Independence
4. The Material Culture of Expertise: Artisanal Ways of Knowing, Apprenticeship, and the Professionalization of Craft
5. Feminizing the Craft: The Urban Workshop, Woman's Space, and Respectable Dress
Conclusion: Tailoring in the Twenty-First Century
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Tailoring Identities
1. Wrapped and Draped: Making Clothing in the Dahomey Kingdom
2. Fitting Changes: The Sartorial Economy and the Tailored Silhouette
3. Tailoring Men: Mobility, Modernity, and Men's Fashions in the Era of Independence
4. The Material Culture of Expertise: Artisanal Ways of Knowing, Apprenticeship, and the Professionalization of Craft
5. Feminizing the Craft: The Urban Workshop, Woman's Space, and Respectable Dress
Conclusion: Tailoring in the Twenty-First Century
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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technology; crafting; clothing; material culture; gender; labor; urban; Dahomey Kingdom; Republic of Benin; Republic of Dahomey
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tailoring Identities
1. Wrapped and Draped: Making Clothing in the Dahomey Kingdom
2. Fitting Changes: The Sartorial Economy and the Tailored Silhouette
3. Tailoring Men: Mobility, Modernity, and Men's Fashions in the Era of Independence
4. The Material Culture of Expertise: Artisanal Ways of Knowing, Apprenticeship, and the Professionalization of Craft
5. Feminizing the Craft: The Urban Workshop, Woman's Space, and Respectable Dress
Conclusion: Tailoring in the Twenty-First Century
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Tailoring Identities
1. Wrapped and Draped: Making Clothing in the Dahomey Kingdom
2. Fitting Changes: The Sartorial Economy and the Tailored Silhouette
3. Tailoring Men: Mobility, Modernity, and Men's Fashions in the Era of Independence
4. The Material Culture of Expertise: Artisanal Ways of Knowing, Apprenticeship, and the Professionalization of Craft
5. Feminizing the Craft: The Urban Workshop, Woman's Space, and Respectable Dress
Conclusion: Tailoring in the Twenty-First Century
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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