Ethnic Identity and Cultural Manipulation: Inca Attire in the Colonial Period

Autores/as

  • Jean- Jacques Decoster Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco

Resumen

Precolonial Andean dress such as the uncu, the liclla or the acso served to express ethnic identity and the status or condition of the individual. Colonial powers tried, instead, to homogenize those differences through the imposition of a generic indigenous identity. This article considers the uses of dress as a semiotic expression of identity, and its manipulation in changing fields of reference. It intends to highlight the strategies used to express, control, conceal or transform the projection of a specific collective identity in contradictory social contexts.

Biografía del autor/a

Jean- Jacques Decoster, Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco

Departamento de Antropología

Publicado

2005-03-27

Cómo citar

Decoster, J.-. J. (2005). Ethnic Identity and Cultural Manipulation: Inca Attire in the Colonial Period. Estudios Atacameños (En línea), (29), 163-170. Recuperado a partir de https://revistas.ucn.cl/index.php/estudios-atacamenos/article/view/567

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Historia