Elisabeth Linnebuhr: Sprechende Tuecher. Frauenkleidung der Swahili (Ostafrika).

Women in East Africa appear to be in a unique position worldwide: their everyday dresses are not only significant in their habitual textile codes, but also as textures exhibiting meaningful verbal elements in complex density and seemingly endless variety These textual elements are proverbs or prover...

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Main Author: Geider, Thomas
Other Authors: Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Afrikanistik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig 2012
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Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-95385
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-95385
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