Borderland in the Middle: The Delaware Colony on the Atlantic Coast

Cunzo, Lu Ann De

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6202-6_11

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“…In colonial Delaware, Lenape elites adopted Swedish-made frieze coats that had originally been produced to clothe orphans. Rather than accepting or acknowledging their original social meaning, through a process of inversion the Lenape transformed the coats into a potent material indicator of significant social and political status (De Cunzo, 2013: 201).…”

Section: Comparative Colonial Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clothing and colonialism: The Dungiven costume and the fashioning of early modern identities

Horning

2014

Journal of Social Archaeology

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The entanglement of identity and personal attire in colonial settings is explored through consideration of a tattered set of clothes from late sixteenth-early seventeenth-century Ireland incorporating elements of Irish, English, and Scots fashion. Reconsideration of the clothing, recovered from a bog, provides a rare opportunity to explore the physical manifestations of processes of hybridity and mimesis, as well as the pragmatic accommodations of impoverishment and displacement in colonial settings. In addition to considering the role of material culture in colonial identity formation and negotiation, examination of what has become known as the Dungiven costume also speaks to the ongoing legacy of early modern colonial encounters, as the cultural associations of the garments, and by extension their past wearer(s), continue to be subjected to the politically charged nature of identity politics in contemporary Northern Ireland.

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Section: Comparative Colonial Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%