Exoticisation undressed

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  • Exoticisation undressed Book Detail

  • Author : Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
  • Release Date : 2016-07-05
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 366
  • ISBN 13 : 1526100940
  • File Size : 58,58 MB

Exoticisation undressed by Dimitrios Theodossopoulos PDF Summary

Book 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 Emberá 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 Emberá communities a closer identification with an indigenous identity and a more confident representational awareness. The clothes that the Emberá wear are not simply used to convey messages, but also become constitutive of their intended messages. By wearing indigenous-and-modern clothes, the Emberá-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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