 Sacudiendo las polleras (Image by Pablo Andrés Rivero) Details DMCA | Aymara women of Bolivia show off their newfound upward mobility while preserving their traditional dress of full colourful petticoats and tall bowler hats This increased visibility is more than an exercise in conspicuous consumption: forced into servitude under colonial rule and later relegated to the margins of society, Bolivia's many indigenous peoples were long excluded from mainstream society. Until the 1990s, wearing a pollera or a poncho to a government office would have been unthinkable. But attitudes started to change with the election of Evo Morales, the country's first indigenous president who took office in 2006. |
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