Dressing Up
Clothing, Class and Gender in Post-Abolition Zanzibar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8979724 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Fair (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-94 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853797007111 |
| OpenAlex | W2087925544 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
Pemba Peremba Ukija na winda, hutoka na kilemba Ukija na kilemba, hutoka na winda. (Proceed cautiously in Pemba If you come wearing a loin cloth, you leave wearing a turban If you come wearing a turban, you leave wearing a loin cloth.) Dress has historically been used as one of the most important and visually immediate markers of class, status and ethnicity in East African coastal society. As one of many forms of expressive culture, clothing practice shaped and gave form to social bodies. Examining transformations in dress and fashion illustrates, however, that boundaries between theoretically distinctive social categories were often vague in practice
Archaeology · Art · Bride · Class (philosophy · Clothing · Ethnic group · Political science · Social class · Sociology · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
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Global Goods
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Africa south of the Sahara from the First World War
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Recharting Atlantic encounters. Object trajectories and histories of value in the Siin (Senegal) and Senegambia
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Contemporary Geographies of Zanzibari Fashion
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Converging Trades and New Technologies
The Archaeology of Slavery
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Slavery and Slaving in African History
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Developing an archaeology of African consumers
Untangling Stories and Healing Rifts
Implications of matriliny
Moving still
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Capitalism and Cloves
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Zanzibari women’s discursive and sexual agency
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Twilight of an Industry in East Africa
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How Slaves Used Islam
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Islam in the Interior of Precolonial East Africa
Enterprising Partners
Female Circles and Male Lines
Culture matérielle, histoire du genre et des sexualités
Dressing the Diaspora
Wedding ceremonies and cultural exchange in an Indian Ocean port city
Common Ways to See Differently
Tactics and Tactility
Texts on textiles
Clothing and the changing identities of Tanganyikan urban youths, 1920s-1950s
Celebrating power in everyday life
Whoever Leaves Their Traditions Is a Slave
| Unique citing works | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2025 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |