Why Indians wear clothes

Abstract

In the high jungle of the Peruvian montaña Asheninka males occasionally manipulate dress codes to improve their bargaining position vis‐à‐vis settler/colonists. Settler values are constructed on a civilized/uncivilized dichotomy corresponding to a colonist/Ashéninka dichotomy of ethnic categories. Asheninka appropriations of the “civilized” translates settler values into Ashéninka power games, and the symbols of the “civilized” end up as means of strengthening Ashéninka identity.

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