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Gender and the boundaries of dress in contemporary Peru

Why people wear clothes, why people make art, and why those things matter in a war-torn land.
Print Book, English, 2004
University of Texas Press, Austin, 2004
368 p. : il. ; 23 cm.
9780292702639, 0292702639
1025927535
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. False Borders, Embroidered Lives1. Traveling2. Fabricating Ethnic Frontiers: Identity in a Region at the Crossroads3. Clothing the Body: Visual Domain and Cultural Process4. Addressing History: Representation and the Embodiment of Memory5. Dancing in Disguise: Transvestism and Festivals as Performance6. Marching and Meaning: Ethnic Symbols and Gendered Demonstrations7. Making Difference: Gender and Production in a Workshop System8. Trading Places: Exchange, Identity, and the Commoditization of ClothConclusion. Why Women Wear PollerasNotesBibliographyIndex
Bibliografia p. 323-353