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Informationen zum Autor Dimitrios Theodossopoulos is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent. He has conducted research in Panama and Greece, focusing on processes of resistance, exoticisation, authenticity, tourism, environmentalism, and the politics of cultural representation and protest. He is author of Exoticisation Undressed (2016) and Troubles with Turtles (2003) and editor of De-Pathologising Resistance (2015), Great Expectations (2011), United in Discontent (2010), and When Greeks Think about Turks (2007). Klappentext Exoticisation Undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered and their inherent power to distort and refract understanding. Zusammenfassung Exoticisation Undressed is an innovative ethnography that makes visible the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered and their inherent power to distort and refract understanding. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Nostalgia, invisible clothes and hidden motivations2. Static sketches in transformation3. A story about Emberá clothes4. Ghosts of Emberá past5. Ghosts of Emberá present6. Representational self-awareness7. Shifting codes of dress8. Three authentic Emberá discontinuities9. Indigenous-and-modern Emberá clothesReferencesIndex
