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Exoticisation undressed : Ethnographic nostalgia and authenticity in Emberá clothes /
'Exoticisation Undressed' is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered and their inherent power to distort and refract understanding.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; List of boxes; Preface; Notes; Series editor's foreword; 1 Nostalgia, invisible clothes and hidden motivations; Indigenous disemia; Under the spell of authenticity and nostalgia; They are wearing clothes. Can't you see?; Inspiration from closer to Panama; An ideal community to confront the exotic; About the sketches; Notes; 2 Static sketches in transformation; 'Traditional' clothes for men; 'Traditional' clothes for women; Emberá body painting.
- Generating further ethnographic nostalgiaNotes; 3 A story about Emberá clothes; Episode one: in the mists of time and up to the 1960s; Episode two: resettling in concentrated communities; Episode 3: the return of indigenous attire; Notes; 4 Ghosts of Emberá past; Verrill's fascination with Emberá nudity; Marsh seeing the Emberá as 'naked' and 'child-like'; Marsh seeing the Emberá as white; Marsh describing the Emberá body and attire; On exoticising ambivalence; Notes; 5 Ghosts of Emberá present; The irresistible view of naturalness in Emberá appearance; The tourist encounter.
- Ambivalent tourist expectationsContradictory images of the exotic; Notes; 6 Representational self-awareness; Founding a community to accommodate tourism; Dilemmas about the authenticity of the built environment; Emberá interest in the details of their own traditional culture; Searching for new and old representational knowledge; From entertaining others to guiding and educating others; Notes; 7 Shifting codes of dress; Dressing up and down in the course of the day; 'In-between' dress codes and ethnographic nostalgia; Indigenous accommodations of non-indigenous modesty.
- Embarrassment, pride and individual dress choicesThe flow of change; Notes; 8 Three authentic Emberá discontinuities; Paruma fashion, materiality and versatility; Dressing up to go to church; When Westerners undress to dress up as Emberá; Notes; 9 Indigenous-and-modern Emberá clothes; No single authenticity to discover; Disemia: indigenous-and-modern; Mirrors, caricatures and the recognition of the exotic in the Self; Notes; References; Index.