Ornamented bark-cloth in Indonesia

Reading the Threadbrings together artists, theorists and designers to explore the nature and use of cloth as a means of record and communication. Cloth is constructed from thr...

Drawing examples from a wide range of African cultures, this ground-breaking book expands the continuing discourse on the aesthetic and cultural significance of cloth, body and dre...

Examining the significance of cloth in the work of contemporary feminist artists,Intersecting Threads: Art, Cloth and Intersectional Feminismdraws on Black feminist theories, queer...

Nationalism: Past as Prologue began as a single volume being compiled by Ad Akande, a scholar from South Africa, who proposed it to me as co-author about two years ago. The origina...

The chapter collects and discusses the historical information provided by Herodotus about Egypt between the Persian conquest and his own time. Egypt attracts more post-conquest att...