Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Cultural Authentication and Textiles
1. Dress, Textiles, and the Kalabari Material World
2. Kalabari Cut-Thread and Pulled-Thread Cloth
3. Cut-Thread Cloth Characteristics
4. "Our Great Mother . . . Tied This Cloth": Pelete Bite Cloth Women, and Kalabari Identity
5. The Economics of Making Pelete Bite
6. Indian Madras Plaids as Real India
7. Ecological Systems Theory and the Significance of Imported Madras Cloth
8. India and West Africa: Transformation of Velvets
9. Designed for Wrapping: Changes in Indian Embroidered Velvets Produced for the Kalabari
II. Kalabari Dress
10. Male and Female Artistry
11. The Stages of Traditional Womanhood
12. Dress and Gender in Women's Societies
13. The Aesthetics of Men's Dress
14. Dress as a Symbol of Identity of Sir (Chief) O. K. Isokariari
15. Beaded and Bedecked
16. Coral Use and Meaning
17. Headwear
III. Kalabari Rituals
18. Celebration and Display
19. Fitting Farewells
20. Centenary and Masquerade Rituals
21. Kalabari Rituals and Dress as Multisensory Experiences
IV. The Kalabari Diaspora
22. The Kalabari Diaspora in the Twenty-First Century.