Cloth, Dress, and Art Patronage in Africa

Table of contents

• Cloth, Dress and Art Patronage in Africa *
• Dress, Body, Culture *
• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Acknowledgements vi
• Introduction 1
• Notes *
• Part 1 - The Impact Patronage on the Arts of Africa 7
• 1 - Art Patronage as a Generator of Cloth and Dress 9
• Notes *
• 2 - Cloth Dress as a Mirror of Culture in Africa 25
• Notes *
• 3 - Art Patron Roles 49
• Notes *
• 4 - Leadership Arts in State Societies 81
• Notes *
• Part 2 - The Department of Hausa, Nupe and Youba Cloth and Dress Traditiions 103
• 5 - Historical Context Leadership, Trade and Art Patronage 105
• Notes *
• 6 - Patterns of Production and Consumptionin Nineteenth-Century Luxury Cloth Traditions 131
• Notes *
• 7 - Continuity and Change in Twenineth-Century Cloth Traditions 153
• Notes *
• 8 - The Fashionable World of the Youth 171
• Notes 187
• Postscript: to Puton Cloth 189
• Bibliography 193
• Index 209

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