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Paperback / softback. New. 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 textile manufacture, design, and trade, she follows wax cloth around the world and through time to unveil its critical role in colonial and postcolonial patterns of exchange and value production. Sylvanus brings wax cloth's unique and complex history to light: born as a nineteenth-century Dutch colonial effort to copy Javanese batik cloth for Southeast Asian markets, it was reborn as a status marker that has dominated the visual economy of West African markets. Although most wax cloth is produced in China today, it continues to be central to the expression of West African women's identity and power. As Sylvanus shows, wax cloth expresses more than this global motion of goods,…
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Patterns in Circulation: Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa Paperback - 2016
by Nina Sylvanus
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- Title Patterns in Circulation: Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa
- Author Nina Sylvanus
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 2016
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780226397221 / 022639722X
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.35 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
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- Cultural Region: West Africa
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Textile industry - Togo, Women textile designers - Togo
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016017205
- Dewey Decimal Code 338.476
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