Remaking fashion in the Paris of the Indian Ocean: Dress, performance, and the cultural construction of a cosmopolitan zanzibari identity

Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 13-30

  Fair, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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