Trajes del teatro del mundo: vestimenta, sujetos y diferencia americana en la primera modernidad
Costume books were a genre of editorial production in the second half of the sixteenth century. Composed of illustrations and texts, they proposed an elucidation of the various nations of the world through the description of dress. Issued from various centers of editorial production in Western Chris...
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Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains
2014-06-01
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| description | Costume books were a genre of editorial production in the second half of the sixteenth century. Composed of illustrations and texts, they proposed an elucidation of the various nations of the world through the description of dress. Issued from various centers of editorial production in Western Christendom, these books- despite their differences- share formal characteristics and a set of ideas concerning the relationship between dress or costume and the status of the individual. The costume books include representations of the dress of the populations of the Americas. In this text we discuss the forms that this inclusion takes. To do this, instead of focusing exclusively on the iconography, we analyze the way in which the ideas that organize these books are applied specifically to American inhabitants: the hierarchization and specification of social condition as it is expressed in dress; the relationship between nation, territory and costume; and the mutation in forms of dress. In all these matters, we find an attenuation or indeterminacy. American space representation and the colonial construction of its population are marked by this condition. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3bb7a18be1174f14a12b483f81f9c46b2024-02-14T16:42:16ZengCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos1626-02522014-06-0110.4000/nuevomundo.66794Trajes del teatro del mundo: vestimenta, sujetos y diferencia americana en la primera modernidadAlejandra VegaCostume books were a genre of editorial production in the second half of the sixteenth century. Composed of illustrations and texts, they proposed an elucidation of the various nations of the world through the description of dress. Issued from various centers of editorial production in Western Christendom, these books- despite their differences- share formal characteristics and a set of ideas concerning the relationship between dress or costume and the status of the individual. The costume books include representations of the dress of the populations of the Americas. In this text we discuss the forms that this inclusion takes. To do this, instead of focusing exclusively on the iconography, we analyze the way in which the ideas that organize these books are applied specifically to American inhabitants: the hierarchization and specification of social condition as it is expressed in dress; the relationship between nation, territory and costume; and the mutation in forms of dress. In all these matters, we find an attenuation or indeterminacy. American space representation and the colonial construction of its population are marked by this condition.https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/66794costume bookscolonial subjectindeterminacyAmerican spaceSixteenth Century |
| spellingShingle | Alejandra Vega Trajes del teatro del mundo: vestimenta, sujetos y diferencia americana en la primera modernidad Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos costume books colonial subject indeterminacy American space Sixteenth Century |
| title | Trajes del teatro del mundo: vestimenta, sujetos y diferencia americana en la primera modernidad |
| title_full | Trajes del teatro del mundo: vestimenta, sujetos y diferencia americana en la primera modernidad |
| title_fullStr | Trajes del teatro del mundo: vestimenta, sujetos y diferencia americana en la primera modernidad |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trajes del teatro del mundo: vestimenta, sujetos y diferencia americana en la primera modernidad |
| title_short | Trajes del teatro del mundo: vestimenta, sujetos y diferencia americana en la primera modernidad |
| title_sort | trajes del teatro del mundo vestimenta sujetos y diferencia americana en la primera modernidad |
| topic | costume books colonial subject indeterminacy American space Sixteenth Century |
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