A study of the cultural notions of clothing and nakedness in colonial Latin America, and their uses in construing social and economic status, gender, race, and power during the conquest and the colonial period. The role of clothing in indigenous cultures pre- and post- conquest will also be studied throughout the semester. We will examine a broad range of representations of clothing, costume, veiling, textiles, as well as perceived nakedness, jewelry and adornments, among other expressions of the culture of clothing in both literary and historical written accounts (chronicles, letters, historias, poetry, treatises, and novels), oral traditions (such as myth and song in Nahua, Maya, Inca, and other indigenous cultures), and visual culture (codices, sculpture, religious paintings, portraiture).

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 10

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