ISBN:
9781907774560
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (194 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Allerton, Catherine Body Arts and Modernity
DDC:
391.65
Keywords:
Body art - Social aspects
Abstract:
What happens to body arts when these aesthetic practices assume fresh significance in the context of modernity? In many parts of the indigenous world, the realm of body arts has become an arena for innovation, debate, revival and repression under the conditions of modernity. Among some groups, formerly suppressed 'traditions' of body arts have recently been revived. Elsewhere, body arts have been the means for creating or renovating identities in response to a developing international tourist market and in the light of novel technologies of representation, such as photography and film. The contributions to this volume draw together ideas emerging from the anthropology of the body, the western interest in body ornamentation of the 'Other', and the recent revival of specific body arts such as tattooing and piercing. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from Amazonia, Indonesia, Africa, Melanesia and Polynesia, this volume shows how bodily presentation plays a fundamental role in contemporary identity politics in tension with encompassing national and global stereotypes, which may in turn both constrain and empower local traditions
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Plates -- Chapter 1: Body arts and modernity: An introduction -- Visibility/invisibility -- Authenticity/irony -- Real/ideal -- Interiority/exteriority -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Ski masks, veils, nose-rings and feathers: Identity on the frontlines of modernity -- Visual appearances as sites of identity and critique -- Exoticism as an index of authenticity -- Risks of visibility and invisibility -- Cultural pride and political empowerment -- Body images as targets for criticism -- Expanding public notions of indigeneity -- Zapatista masks: subverting the dominating gaze -- Solidarity behind the mask -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Black paint, red paint and a wristwatch: The aesthetics of modernity among the Panará in Central Brazil -- The Panará -- The things of others -- A Panará wardrobe -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Clothing as acculturation in Peruvian Amazonia -- Travel literature -- Theorising clothing change -- A phenomenological account of Piro clothing -- Change -- Mgenoklu, jaguars -- Kajine, white people -- A historical approach to the problem -- Modernity as an Amazonian perspective -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Body art and modernity: South-east Nuba -- Introduction -- On modernity, and modernity and the body -- South-east Nuba personal art -- More on Riefenstahl -- Notes -- Extended Bibliography -- Chapter 6: From self-decoration to self-fashioning: Orientalism as backward progress among the Gebusi ofPapua New Guinea -- Culture, clothing and change among Gebusi -- Orientalism revisited -- Gendered markers? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Lipsticked brides and powdered children: Cosmetics and the allure of modernity in an eastern Indonesian village -- Powder, body decoration and two icons of beauty -- Sources of modern body images
Abstract:
Photography and ideal images of modernity -- The body, health and youth -- Cosmetic decoration and gendered propriety -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Encounters on the surface of life: T-shirts and visual analogy in South Auckland -- Introduction -- The problem -- The Pacific diaspora in Auckland -- T-shirt graphics -- Humour and conflict resolution -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: Decorated being in Huli: Parleying with paint -- Introduction -- Decorated being: a narrativised identity -- Huli and hair -- The 'Hela' and 'Huli' in Màli -- The Màli -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10: 'Island dress that belongs to us all': Mission dresses and the innovation of tradition in Vanuatu -- Some background -- Introduced clothing -- Island dresses -- Trade and transmission -- Regional variations -- Stealing with the eye -- Kastom, kalja mo tredisin -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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