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Weaving Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town
by Carol Hendrickson
- CULTURAL PORTRAIT
- 1995
- PAPER
- 245 PAGES
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An ethnography of contemporary life in the Guatemalan highlands -- and study of the political significance and role of traditional costume. It's a scholarly analysis based on field work in Tecpan during the civil war, when to wear traditional clothing was to assert "We are Maya!" (the title of the last chapter of this fascinating book).
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