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Title The Latin American fashion reader / edited by Regina A. Root.

Imprint Oxford, UK ; New York : Berg, 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  391.0098 L349 2005    ---  Available
Edition English ed.
Description xvi, 352 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series Dress, body, culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references( p. 310-336) and index.
Contents Visualizing difference : the rhetoric of clothing in colonial Spanish America / Mariselle Melendez -- Fashioning independence : gender, dress and social space in postcolonial Argentina / Regina A. Root -- 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 Femenias -- 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 S~ao Paulo fashion scene / Rita Andrade -- As she walks to the sea : a semiology of Rio de Janeiro / Nizia Villaca -- "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 Lopez 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 / Maria Claudia Andre -- Fashioning United States Salvadoranness : unveiling the faces of Christy Turlington and Rosa Lopez / Claudia M. Milian Arias -- Scattered bodies, unfashionable flesh / Fabricio Forastelli.
Subject Clothing and dress -- Latin America -- History.
Fashion -- Latin America -- History.
Latin America -- Social life and customs.
Added Author Root, Regina A.
ISBN 1859738931 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1859738885 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 268855021

 
    
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