Why Indians wear clothes
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ethnos
- Vol. 57 (1) , 51-60
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.1992.9981445
Abstract
In the high jungle of the Peruvian montaña Asheninka males occasionally manipulate dress codes to improve their bargaining position vis‐à‐vis settler/colonists. Settler values are constructed on a civilized/uncivilized dichotomy corresponding to a colonist/Ashéninka dichotomy of ethnic categories. Asheninka appropriations of the “civilized” translates settler values into Ashéninka power games, and the symbols of the “civilized” end up as means of strengthening Ashéninka identity.Keywords
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