Exoticisation Undressed
Ethnographic Nostalgia and Authenticity in Embera Clothes
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2016
288 pages
978-1-5261-0094-8 (ISBN)
Description
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. The book focuses in detail on the clothing practices of the Embera in Panama, an Amerindian ethnic group, who have gained national and international visibility through their engagement with indigenous tourism. The very act of gaining visibility while wearing indigenous attire has encouraged among some Embera communities a closer identification with an indigenous identity and a more confident representational awareness. The clothes that the Embera wear are not simply used to convey messages, but also become constitutive of their intended messages. By wearing indigenous-and-modern clothes, the Embera-who are often seen by outsiders as shadows of a vanishing world-reclaim their place as citizens of a contemporary nation. Through reflexive engagement, Exoticisation undressed exposes the workings of ethnographic nostalgia and the Western quest for a singular, primordial authenticity, unravelling instead new layers of complexity that reverse and subvert exoticisation. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations, black & white
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-0094-8 (9781526100948)
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Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Exoticisation Undressed
Ethnographic Nostalgia and Authenticity in Embera Clothes
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10/2018
Manchester University Press
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Exoticisation Undressed
Ethnographic Nostalgia and Authenticity in Embera Clothes
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06/2016
Manchester University Press
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Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Content
1 Introduction: Nostalgia, invisible clothes, and hidden motivations
2 Static sketches in transformation
3 A story about Embera clothes
4 Ghosts of Embera past
5 Ghosts of Embera present
6 Representational self-awareness
7 Shifting codes of dress
8 Three authentic Embera discontinuities
9 Indigenous-and-modern Embera clothes
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2 Static sketches in transformation
3 A story about Embera clothes
4 Ghosts of Embera past
5 Ghosts of Embera present
6 Representational self-awareness
7 Shifting codes of dress
8 Three authentic Embera discontinuities
9 Indigenous-and-modern Embera clothes
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