Blenda Femenías
Biographic Data
| ID | 115514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Blenda Femenías |
| GIVEN NAMES | Blenda |
| FAMILY NAME | Femenías |
| SIGNATURE | FEMENÍAS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Of slurs and soccer
Since the late twentieth century, Buenos Aires has been widely publicized outside Argentina as a "gay-friendly" destination. This period has also seen increasing immigration to the city from other parts of South America, especially neighboring countries and others with sizeable indigenous populations. An ongoing popular national narrative highlights hyper-masculinity as a preeminently Argentine characteristic. Distinct discourses characterizing A…
Paradoxes of Belonging in Peru's National Museums
This article examines the establishment of Peru's national museums in the first half of the 20th century. I address the ways that art, archaeology, and anthropology intertwined in the collection of objects and the creation of buildings in which to house them. In addressing commemorative events, especially the Centennial of Independence, I argue that the performative practices of memory building depended on the creation of an idea of unity that, p…
AAA Launches Digital Data Management Resources
The Andean Tunic, 400 BCE–1800 CE. Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. new york. march 7– october 16, 2011
In Cloth We Trust
In this essay, I contextualize recent studies of cloth and culture in Africa, South America, and Oceania within changing anthropological concerns. Examining cloth as an important aspect of art, technology, and economy, I question how specific properties of objects are connected with cultural and social significance. Over the last two decades in particular, cloth—whether woven or nonwoven—has often been construed as an especially potent polyvalent…
Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru
Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru
Set in Arequipa during Peru's recent years of crisis, this ethnography reveals how dress creates gendered bodies. It explores why people wear clothes, why people make art, and why those things matter in a war-torn land. Blenda Femenías argues that women's clothes are key symbols of gender identity and resistance to racism. Moving between metropolitan Arequipa and rural Caylloma Province, the central characters are the Quechua- and Spanish-speakin…
Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru
The Gendering of Anthropology in South America
Vision, Race, and Modernity
Scholars of Latin America whose work is concerned with visual subjects often search in vain for substantive treatments of Andean themes. Once we finish admiring the photographs of Martín Chambi, we don’t know where to turn. I am happy to report that Vision, Race, and Modernity is just what we needed. Deborah Poole’s carefully argued and finely crafted book spotlights visual concerns and places them within the political, social, cultural, and hist…
Weaving identities
Weaving identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town. CAROL HENDRICKSON. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. xvi + 245 pp., tables, figures, photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index
Unruly Order
Unruly Order: Violence, Power, and Cultural Identity In the High Provinces of Southern Peru. Deborah Poole. ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. + 285 pp., contributors, figures, tables, notes, bibliography
Of slurs and soccer
Since the late twentieth century, Buenos Aires has been widely publicized outside Argentina as a "gay-friendly" destination. This period has also seen increasing immigration to the city from other parts of South America, especially neighboring countries and others with sizeable indigenous populations. An ongoing popular national narrative highlights hyper-masculinity as a preeminently Argentine characteristic. Distinct discourses characterizing A…
Weaving identities
Weaving identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town. CAROL HENDRICKSON. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. xvi + 245 pp., tables, figures, photographs, notes, glossary, bibliography, index
Unruly Order
Unruly Order: Violence, Power, and Cultural Identity In the High Provinces of Southern Peru. Deborah Poole. ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994. + 285 pp., contributors, figures, tables, notes, bibliography
Vision, Race, and Modernity
Scholars of Latin America whose work is concerned with visual subjects often search in vain for substantive treatments of Andean themes. Once we finish admiring the photographs of Martín Chambi, we don’t know where to turn. I am happy to report that Vision, Race, and Modernity is just what we needed. Deborah Poole’s carefully argued and finely crafted book spotlights visual concerns and places them within the political, social, cultural, and hist…
The Gendering of Anthropology in South America
Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru
Set in Arequipa during Peru's recent years of crisis, this ethnography reveals how dress creates gendered bodies. It explores why people wear clothes, why people make art, and why those things matter in a war-torn land. Blenda Femenías argues that women's clothes are key symbols of gender identity and resistance to racism. Moving between metropolitan Arequipa and rural Caylloma Province, the central characters are the Quechua- and Spanish-speakin…
Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru
Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru
In Cloth We Trust
In this essay, I contextualize recent studies of cloth and culture in Africa, South America, and Oceania within changing anthropological concerns. Examining cloth as an important aspect of art, technology, and economy, I question how specific properties of objects are connected with cultural and social significance. Over the last two decades in particular, cloth—whether woven or nonwoven—has often been construed as an especially potent polyvalent…
The Andean Tunic, 400 BCE–1800 CE. Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. new york. march 7– october 16, 2011
Paradoxes of Belonging in Peru's National Museums
This article examines the establishment of Peru's national museums in the first half of the 20th century. I address the ways that art, archaeology, and anthropology intertwined in the collection of objects and the creation of buildings in which to house them. In addressing commemorative events, especially the Centennial of Independence, I argue that the performative practices of memory building depended on the creation of an idea of unity that, p…
AAA Launches Digital Data Management Resources
Of slurs and soccer
Since the late twentieth century, Buenos Aires has been widely publicized outside Argentina as a "gay-friendly" destination. This period has also seen increasing immigration to the city from other parts of South America, especially neighboring countries and others with sizeable indigenous populations. An ongoing popular national narrative highlights hyper-masculinity as a preeminently Argentine characteristic. Distinct discourses characterizing A…
Sociology (10 works) · Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Citation (4 works) · Library science (4 works)