Main concept
Dresscapes
We will use the concept of dresscapes to encapsulate the complex web of interrelationships between the construction of selves, values, material culture, landscape, and technology in relation to dress, clothing, and ornamentation.
This concept was first proposed by Sandra Montón Subías in 2018[1] and allows for a comprehensive analysis of the multiple dimensions that targeting CHamoru body outfit by Spanish colonial agents had on Tåno’ Låguas yan Gåni and its people.
[1] Montón-Subías, Sandra. (2019). Gender, Missions, and Maintenance Activities in the Early Modern Globalization: Guam 1668–98. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 23: 404–429.
Aberigua more
The following is merely a selection, and we apologize for any omissions. If you, dear reader, notice any missing references, please let us know so that we may include them.
- Montón-Subías, Sandra & Moral de Eusebio, Enrique 2021. A Body Is Worth a Thousand Words: Early Colonial Dress-Scapes in Guam. Historical Archaeology, 2: 269-289.
- Montón-Subías, Sandra. 2024. The Habit Does Make the Monk: Jesuit Dress in the Marianas Mission 1668–1700. Jesuit Studies 11(2): 204-225.
- Moral de Eusebio, Enrique 2021. Sexual (Mis)Encounters in the Mariana Islands Tracing Sexuality in Spanish Policies and CHamoru Responses to Contact and Colonization, 1521-1769. Doctoral Thesis. Pompeu Fabra University.
