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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (144): 19–44.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Elizabeth Ann Fretwell Abstract This article examines the sartorial culture of an African elite as a form of Afropolitanism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century West African kingdom of Dahomey. Dahomean elites embraced cultural borrowing to layer styles and materials from European and African...
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in “Domesticating the Unfamiliar”: Afropolitan Dress in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey
> Radical History Review
Published: 01 October 2022
Figure 2. Francis Chesham, Last Day of the Annual Customs for Watering the Graves of the King’s Ancestors . From Archibald Dalzel’s History of Dahomey (1793).
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (144): 1–18.
Published: 01 October 2022
... of the Afropolitan may be most readily evoked in fashion and consumer culture, but the term also evokes a powerful visual aesthetic associated with urbanized landscapes both within and beyond the African continent, past and present. In her study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Dahomey, Elizabeth Fretwell...
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (91): 98–103.
Published: 01 January 2005
... to
tropical Africa. There were, for instance, Archibald Dalzel’s History of Dahomey,
published in 1793, and Silvia Correia’s History of Angola, published in about 1742.
Different authors continued to produce other publications, writings, and comments
pertaining to tropical Africa. To be sure, not all...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1985) 1985 (33): 165–181.
Published: 01 May 1985
... French colony of
Dahomey; the latter became the Republic of Benin in 1975.
16. Robert Farris Thompson, Flash of the Spirit (New York, 1982).
17. The recent book by Werner Gillon, while visually impressive, conflates
communitarian and court art. In addition, its focus on change is so...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (45): 164–171.
Published: 01 October 1989
... begins to solve a serious deficiency in Polanyi's analysis, but he only
begins to do so. Polanyi drew heavily on the old gmeinxhft/gesellxhft
distinction to characterize precapitalist societies. While he moved easily
from trade routes in Dahomey to exchange among the Trobriand Islanders...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1992) 1992 (52): 5–30.
Published: 01 January 1992
... Dahomans, who seemed to lack gen-
der difference entirely. The New York Times described "The Dahomey
gentleman (or perhaps it is a Dahomey lady, for the distinction is not
obvious), who may be seen at almost any hour .. . clad mainly in a brief
grass skirt and capering nimbly to the lascivious...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (89): 165–184.
Published: 01 May 2004
...
of Yoruba speakers, and other Africans, from Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Dahomey, Congo,
and Cameroon, cabildos became the sites of Santeria (now a hemisphere-wide reli-
gion). Among Indo-Caribbeans, the reconfiguration of social organization is perhaps
best known...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1987) 1987 (39): 28–48.
Published: 01 October 1987
...
functionaries were able to increase their wealth and power vis-his
other segments of society. In the process new states such as Dahomey,
Kasanje and Mataniba were formed, older ones were strengthened and
an elaborate network of trade was created. 17
Whereas small or medium farms were typical...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1985) 1985 (32): 33–57.
Published: 01 January 1985
... buildings devoted to transportation,
manufacture, and electricity presented in historical perspective; it
also had seedier entertainment pavilions, located outside the
White City, including ”a real Dahomey village of genuine sav-
ages.”
The 1939 World’s Fair overcame this dichotomy...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 59–81.
Published: 01 January 2009
... of African stereotypes already in operation in the
French capital. By the late nineteenth century, Parisian theater had taken to sensa-
tionalizing the French conquest of Dahomey through staged reenactments of battles
and ethnographic scenes involving “authentic natives.”29 Alongside these depictions...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (90): 31–61.
Published: 01 October 2004
... fantasies” (61). The poem negates
Negritude poets’ idealization of and identification with a glorious African history:
“No, we’ve never been Amazons of the king of Dahomey, nor princes of Ghana. . . .
I may as well confess that we were at all times pretty mediocre...
