Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru /

Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru / / Blenda Femenías.

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Set in Arequipa during Peru's recent years of crisis, this ethnography reveals how dress creates gendered bodies. It explores why people wear clothes, why people make art, and why those things matter in a war-torn land. Blenda Femenías argues that women's clothes are key symbols of gender...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Femenías, Blenda,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2005
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps and Figures
  • 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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