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Clothing, race and identity : sumptuary laws in colonial Spanish America
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Earle, Rebecca (2019) Clothing, race and identity : sumptuary laws in colonial Spanish America. In: Riello, Giorgio and Rublack, Ulinka, (eds.) The Right to Dress : Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 325-345. ISBN 9781108567541
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567541
Abstract
On holidays and other festive occasions, Andean peoples in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru liked to dress up. According to sixteenth - century documents, wealthy Amerindians in Lima, Quito and other colonial cities enjoyed wearing a combination of European and Andean garments, sometimes made of silk and other expensive, imported fabrics. Their sartorial exuberance annoyed local Spaniards, who issued repeated orders prohibiting Amerindians from wearing a range of garments containing silk, velvet, Holland cloth, lace and other embellishments. The indigenous elite did not accept these prohibitions without protest. In 1593, members of the Amerindian community in Quito wrote to Emperor Philip II to complain that ‘as conquered people it sometimes happens that officials and other people undress them and take their clothing, saying that they can wear only cotton, which causes them much trouble and vexation’
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | K Law [Moys] > KS Latin America | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Clothing and dress -- Law and legislation -- History -- Latin America, Indians -- Clothing -- 16th century, Indians -- Clothing -- 17th century, Latin America -- Social life and customs | ||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
Place of Publication: | Cambridge | ||||
ISBN: | 9781108567541 | ||||
Book Title: | The Right to Dress : Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200–1800 | ||||
Editor: | Riello, Giorgio and Rublack, Ulinka | ||||
Official Date: | January 2019 | ||||
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Page Range: | pp. 325-345 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1017/9781108567541.013 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This material has been published in The Right to Dress edited by Riello, G. and Rublack, U. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © The Author” | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 January 2019 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 January 2019 |
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