The Latin American fashion reader /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK ; New York :
Berg,
2005.
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| Edition: | English edition. |
| Series: | Dress, body, culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Visualizing difference : the rhetoric of clothing in colonial Spanish America / Mariselle Meléndez
- Fashioning independence : gender, dress and social space in postcolonial Argentina / Regina A. Root
- The traveler's eye : Chinas poblanas and European-inspired costume in postcolonial Mexico / Kimberly Randall
- Far Eastern influences in Latin American fashions / Araceli Tinajero
- Ixcacles : Maguey-fiber sandals in modern Mexico / Pamela Scheinman
- "Why do gringos like black?" Mourning, tourism, and changing fashions in Peru / Blenda Femenías
- Dressed to kill : the embroidered fashion industry of the Sakaka of highland Bolivia / Elayne Zorn
- Representations of tradition in Latin American boundary textile art / Elyse Demaray, Melody Keim-Shenk, and Mary A. Littrell
- Ponchos of the river plate : nostalgia for Eden / Ruth Corcuera
- Mappin stores : adding an English touch to the São Paulo fashion scene / Rita Andrade
- As she walks to the sea : a semiology of Rio de Janeiro / Nizia Villaça
- "Every girl had a fan which she kept always in motion" : Puerto Rican women's dress at a time of social and cultural transition / Dilia López Gydosh and Marsha A. Dickson
- Guayaberismo and the essence of cool / Marilyn Miller
- Transvestite pedagogy : Jacqueline and Cuban culture / James Pancrazio
- Frida and Evita : Latin American icons for export / María Claudia André
- Fashioning United States Salvadoranness : unveiling the faces of Christy Turlington and Rosa López / Claudia M. Milian Arias
- Scattered bodies, unfashionable flesh / Fabricio Forastelli.