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- Title
Refashioning a Body Politic in Colonial Louisiana.
- Authors
Diana DiPaolo Loren
- Abstract
This article examines the boundaries of clothing and the body in constructions of political identity in French colonial Louisiana. The study situates constructions of political identity among regulatory demands over the bodies of colonial subjects and the practices of taste and social distinction. It is argued that dress allowed colonial subjects to move into political spaces usually occupied by European colonizers. Archaeological, ethnohistoric, and visual data are used to investigate how French colonizers attempted to construct a body politic by regulating dress and the bodies of colonial subjects, while colonial others attempted to constitute themselves as political bodies through self-fashioning.
- Subjects
EUROPE; POLITICAL psychology; IDENTITY (Philosophical concept); INDIVIDUAL differences; SOCIAL psychology
- Publication
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2003, Vol 13, Issue 2, p231
- ISSN
0959-7743
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S095977430322014X