This book examines the relationship between clothing and status in the urban slaveholding society of Lima, Peru.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. Slavery and the aesthetic of mastery; 2. Legal status, gender, and self-fashioning; 3. Black bodies and boundary trouble; 4. Painting, print culture, and colonial ideation; 5. Ladies, gentlemen, slaves, and citizens; Epilogue.