ARTS2213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The International History Review, Anne Mclaren, Shorts
24 Sep 2018
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Clothing and power on the periphery of empire: the costumes of the. This article looks at: the relationship between authenticity and the representation of power in the costume of the taiwan indigenous people. Members of indigenous elites appropriated elements of metropolitan clothing as symbols of status within their own communities, resisting styles which would subordinate them within relationships fashio(cid:374)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ialis(cid:373). The(cid:396)e"s (cid:271)ee(cid:374) a (cid:272)o(cid:374)sta(cid:374)t shifti(cid:374)g i(cid:374) terplay between a (cid:396)heto(cid:396)i(cid:272) of the (cid:271)od(cid:455) d(cid:396)a(cid:449)(cid:374) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the i(cid:374)dige(cid:374)ous people"s t(cid:396)aditio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d o(cid:374)e d(cid:396)a(cid:449)(cid:374) from the metropolitan centres. Also suggested physical endurance: hemp clothes were poor protection in the cold. The naked body was associated with toughness, violence and power: tattoos were also markers of the ability to endure physical pain, men use their bodies to represent strength and confidence e. g. posture, exposing bare chests. In indigenous villages near suao in 1870s, men showed their power in the quantity of their clothing and the labour and materials used to make it.
