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Why people wear clothes, why people make art, and why those things matter in a war-torn land.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. False Borders, Embroidered Lives
  • 1. Traveling
  • 2. Fabricating Ethnic Frontiers: Identity in a Region at the Crossroads
  • 3. Clothing the Body: Visual Domain and Cultural Process
  • 4. Addressing History: Representation and the Embodiment of Memory
  • 5. Dancing in Disguise: Transvestism and Festivals as Performance
  • 6. Marching and Meaning: Ethnic Symbols and Gendered Demonstrations
  • 7. Making Difference: Gender and Production in a Workshop System
  • 8. Trading Places: Exchange, Identity, and the Commoditization of Cloth
  • Conclusion. Why Women Wear Polleras
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru

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      Publisher: MU - University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 5/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780292702639, 978-0292702639
      ISBN10: 0292702639

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Why people wear clothes, why people make art, and why those things matter in a war-torn land.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction. False Borders, Embroidered Lives
      • 1. Traveling
      • 2. Fabricating Ethnic Frontiers: Identity in a Region at the Crossroads
      • 3. Clothing the Body: Visual Domain and Cultural Process
      • 4. Addressing History: Representation and the Embodiment of Memory
      • 5. Dancing in Disguise: Transvestism and Festivals as Performance
      • 6. Marching and Meaning: Ethnic Symbols and Gendered Demonstrations
      • 7. Making Difference: Gender and Production in a Workshop System
      • 8. Trading Places: Exchange, Identity, and the Commoditization of Cloth
      • Conclusion. Why Women Wear Polleras
      • Notes
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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