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.
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.
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent. He has conducted research in Panama and Greece, focusing on processes of resistance, exoticisation, authenticity, tourism, environmentalism, and the politics of cultural representation and protest. He is author of Exoticisation Undressed (2016) and Troubles with Turtles (2003) and editor of De-Pathologising Resistance (2015), Great Expectations (2011), United in Discontent (2010), and When Greeks Think about Turks (2007).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: Nostalgia, invisible clothes and hidden motivations 2. Static sketches in transformation 3. A story about Emberá clothes 4. Ghosts of Emberá past 5. Ghosts of Emberá present 6. Representational self-awareness 7. Shifting codes of dress 8. Three authentic Emberá discontinuities 9. Indigenous-and-modern Emberá clothes References Index
1. Introduction: Nostalgia, invisible clothes and hidden motivations 2. Static sketches in transformation 3. A story about Emberá clothes 4. Ghosts of Emberá past 5. Ghosts of Emberá present 6. Representational self-awareness 7. Shifting codes of dress 8. Three authentic Emberá discontinuities 9. Indigenous-and-modern Emberá clothes References Index
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