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Fashioning Brazil : globalization and the representation of Brazilian dress in National Geographic / Elizabeth Kutesko.

By: Kutesko, Elizabeth [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Dress and fashion researchPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018Description: 224 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781350026599 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Clothing and dress -- Brazil | Clothing and dress -- Brazil -- Case studies | Fashion -- Social aspects -- Brazil | Beauty and Fashion | Beauty and FashionDDC classification: 391'.00981 Summary: Examining the dynamics between subject, photographer and viewer, 'Fashioning Brazil' analyses how Brazilians have appropriated and reinterpreted clothing influences from local and global cultures. Exploring the various ways in which Brazil has been fashioned by the pioneering scientific and educational magazine, 'National Geographic,' the book encourages us to look beyond simplistic representations of exotic difference. Instead, it brings to light an extensive history of self-fashioning within Brazil, which has emerged through cross-cultural contact, slavery, and immigration. Providing an in-depth examination of Brazilian dress and fashion practices as represented by the quasi-ethnographic gaze of 'National Geographic' and 'National Geographic Brazil.'
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Examining the dynamics between subject, photographer and viewer, 'Fashioning Brazil' analyses how Brazilians have appropriated and reinterpreted clothing influences from local and global cultures. Exploring the various ways in which Brazil has been fashioned by the pioneering scientific and educational magazine, 'National Geographic,' the book encourages us to look beyond simplistic representations of exotic difference. Instead, it brings to light an extensive history of self-fashioning within Brazil, which has emerged through cross-cultural contact, slavery, and immigration. Providing an in-depth examination of Brazilian dress and fashion practices as represented by the quasi-ethnographic gaze of 'National Geographic' and 'National Geographic Brazil.'

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