Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial AfricaThis volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the production and authentification of identity, Clothing and Difference shows how the body and its adornment have been used to construct and contest social and