International audienceOur study is interested in the loincloth culture in the south of Sahara on the one hand and in the assumption that the apparition of the counterfeit or smuggled wax loinclothin in Ivory Coast is due to socio-economic disruption that the country went through the last 15 years on the other hand. Data collection took into account the technique of direct observation in the field and we were able to talk with some traders in the Adjamé market and streets. We also met in Abidjan neighborhoods some fashion designers, stylists, women and men who wear loincloths, from all social strata, with whom we exchanged through questionnaires, which makes a sample of 250 people in the survey. During these interviews, we obtained data that...
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Increased smuggling of second-hand clothing into Nigerian market, has negatively affected the con- ...
The west-african women retailers between formal and informal markets. The Togolese women retailers ...
The panel from which this paper stems united the theme of sacred or ceremonial textiles in Africa wi...
In sub-Saharan Africa, fake medicines (or falsified medical products) are of major public health con...
This research investigates the home-based textile and apparel dyeing industry in Mauritania and link...
Les antiquaires africains sont des acteurs incontournables — mais souvent occultés — du marché de l’...
Ces travaux interrogent l’intégration du tissu wax d’origine indonésienne dans la culture vestiment...
International audienceIn the large west African markets, unsold stocks of new textiles are sold dail...
The article analyses the aesthetics of Senufo mudcloth during different ritual settings and formulat...
Le pagne wax est un tissu en coton imprimé de qualité supérieure, que les femmes africaines utilisen...
This paper examines the significance of factory-printed cloth in Africa and its potential to communi...
This paper examines the significance of factory-printed cloth in Africa and its potential to communi...
Thesis: Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts ...
The transition to democracy at the end of the 1990’s and begining of the 2000’s has been a milestone...
International audienceThe aim of this paper is to describe the différent cases camouflage petroleum ...
Increased smuggling of second-hand clothing into Nigerian market, has negatively affected the con- ...
The west-african women retailers between formal and informal markets. The Togolese women retailers ...
The panel from which this paper stems united the theme of sacred or ceremonial textiles in Africa wi...
In sub-Saharan Africa, fake medicines (or falsified medical products) are of major public health con...
This research investigates the home-based textile and apparel dyeing industry in Mauritania and link...
Les antiquaires africains sont des acteurs incontournables — mais souvent occultés — du marché de l’...