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Weaving identities:

construction of dress and self in a highland Guatemala town
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University of Texas Press, 1995 - 245 pages

Traje, the brightly colored traditional dress of the highland Maya, is the principal visual expression of indigenous identity in Guatemala today. Whether worn in beauty pageants, made for religious celebrations, or sold in tourist markets, traje is more than "mere cloth"—it plays an active role in the construction and expression of ethnicity, gender, education, politics, wealth, and nationality for Maya and non-Maya alike.

Carol Hendrickson presents an ethnography of clothing focused on the traje—particularly women's traje—of Tecpán, Guatemala, a bi-ethnic community in the central highlands. She covers the period from 1980, when the recent round of violence began, to the early 1990s, when Maya revitalization efforts emerged.

Using a symbolic analysis informed by political concerns, Hendrickson seeks to increase the value accorded to a subject like weaving, which is sometimes disparaged as "craft" or "women's work." She examines traje in three dimensions—as part of the enduring images of the "Indian," as an indicator of change in the human life cycle and cloth production, and as a medium for innovation and creative expression.

From this study emerges a picture of highland life in which traje and the people who wear it are bound to tradition and place, yet are also actively changing and reflecting the wider world. The book will be important reading for all those interested in the contemporary Maya, the cultural analysis of material culture, and the role of women in culture preservation and change.

  

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Table des matières

Introduction
1
The Geography of Clothing
44
The Enduring Indian Images of the Maya
76
Between Birth and Death Traje and the Human Life Cycle
98
The Cultural Biography of Traje
144
Transforming the Traditional The Creative in Traje
182
To Wear Traje Is to Say We Are Maya
193
Notes
201
Glossary
221
Bibliography
225
Index
235
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TitreWeaving identities: construction of dress and self in a highland Guatemala town
AuteurCarol Elaine Hendrickson
Éditionillustrée, réimprimée
ÉditeurUniversity of Texas Press, 1995
ISBN0292779445, 9780292779440
Longueur245 pages
  
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