Exoticisation undressed : Ethnographic nostalgia and authenticity in Emberá clothes

Exoticisation undressed : Ethnographic nostalgia and authenticity in Emberá clothes / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos.

'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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Theodossopoulos, Dimitrios (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Series:New ethnographies.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Panama.
Embera Indians > Clothing > Panama.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
Ethnology
Panama
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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 nostalgia Notes; 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 choices The 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.

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