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Exoticisation Undressed - Ethnographic Nostalgia and Authenticity in Embera Clothes (Paperback)
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Exoticisation Undressed - Ethnographic Nostalgia and Authenticity in Embera Clothes (Paperback)
Series: New Ethnographies
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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. -- .
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