Ethnic Identity and Cultural Manipulation: Inca Attirein theColonial Period

Authors

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

Abstract

 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.

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Author Biography

  • Jean- Jacques Decoster, Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco
    Departamento de Antropología

Published

2005-03-27

Issue

Section

Historia

How to Cite

Decoster, J.-. J. (2005). Ethnic Identity and Cultural Manipulation: Inca Attirein theColonial Period. Estudios atacameños, 29, 163-170. https://estudiosatacamenos.ucn.cl/index.php/estudios-atacamenos/article/view/567