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Between 1400 and 1800, intensifying cultural, economic, and colonial connections turned textiles into global artefacts. In a world as globalised as never before, this chapter shows, experiences and strategies of cultural positioning put textiles centre-stage for the negotiation of ever more ambivalent identity politics across the world. This chapter introduces the concept of “in-between textiles,” building upon Homi K. Bhabha’s notion of in-betweenness as the actual material ground of the negotiation of cultural practices and meanings, as well as a site for elaborating material strategies of subjectivity.

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera:

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera is a Derby Fellow at The University of Liverpool working on the archaeology of Indigenous slavery in the early modern Americas, and the Caribbean and Chile in particular. Until 2022, she has been a Renfrew Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Teaching Associate at the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge (UK). Her research straddles and connects the fields of postcolonial theory, social anthropology, and material culture studies, while contributing to Critical Indigenous and Subaltern Studies. She was trained in textile archaeology in Leiden (Textile Research Centre) and Cambridge. Her research focuses on the archaeology of colonialism and frontiers centring on clothing, body adornment, and body politics, for which she was also awarded a José Amor y Vázquez fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library in 2019.

Stefan Hanß:

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Stefan Hanß is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at The University of Manchester and the winner of a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2019) as well as a Philip Leverhulme Prize in History (2020). Hanß works on cultural encounters and global material culture, currently with a focus on the history of hair, featherwork, and microscopic records. His research has been widely published in, among others, Current Anthropology, History Workshop Journal, Past & Present, Renaissance Quarterly, and The Historical Journal.

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Publication date (Print): February 15 2023

Pages: 21-54

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[1 ] The University of Liverpool

[2 ] The University of Manchester

DOI: 10.5117/9789463729086_ch01

SO-VID: adcd8589-c104-4e96-9e43-826e4539c0d0

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