Examples Of Cultural Self Portraits
Seth Phelps
Cultural Self Portraits
2/7/15
For my cultural self portrait I decided to use the traits and surroundings from the Maori tribe in New Zealand. The Maori tribe has very interesting clothing, hairstyles, and body adornments.
Clothing, adornments and even hairstyles showed a lot about a person’s status, and fine clothes could enhance a person's’ power and or authority. Traditionally, Māori made their clothes and adornments from native plants, and bird and animal skins. There was a great variety of clothing, including many kinds of cloaks. The most special cloaks were worn only by chiefs.
Hairstyles could show someone’s status, or indicate …show more content…
Receiving moko constituted an important milestone between childhood and adulthood, and was accompanied by many rites and rituals . Apart from signalling status and rank, another reason for the practice in traditional times was to make a person more attractive to the opposite sex. Men generally received moko on their faces, butts and thighs. Women usually wore moko on their lips and chins. I found this tribe interesting mainly because of the art of the tattoos and how much work and elegance is put into every single piece.
In todays modern culture it is very rare to see people representing their own culture in public unless it is for just one special event. Many people associate the color of a persons skin to their culture and most of the time this leads to racial stereotyping and name calling. Many people
assimilate white people with being rich and successful and sometimes a goody twoshoes. And sometimes more than not, those people who assume these things about a person just based on their color, are wrong. These racial stereotypes affect people's perception of who we are in a
Cultural Self Portraits
2/7/15
For my cultural self portrait I decided to use the traits and surroundings from the Maori tribe in New Zealand. The Maori tribe has very interesting clothing, hairstyles, and body adornments.
Clothing, adornments and even hairstyles showed a lot about a person’s status, and fine clothes could enhance a person's’ power and or authority. Traditionally, Māori made their clothes and adornments from native plants, and bird and animal skins. There was a great variety of clothing, including many kinds of cloaks. The most special cloaks were worn only by chiefs.
Hairstyles could show someone’s status, or indicate …show more content…
Receiving moko constituted an important milestone between childhood and adulthood, and was accompanied by many rites and rituals . Apart from signalling status and rank, another reason for the practice in traditional times was to make a person more attractive to the opposite sex. Men generally received moko on their faces, butts and thighs. Women usually wore moko on their lips and chins. I found this tribe interesting mainly because of the art of the tattoos and how much work and elegance is put into every single piece.
In todays modern culture it is very rare to see people representing their own culture in public unless it is for just one special event. Many people associate the color of a persons skin to their culture and most of the time this leads to racial stereotyping and name calling. Many people
assimilate white people with being rich and successful and sometimes a goody twoshoes. And sometimes more than not, those people who assume these things about a person just based on their color, are wrong. These racial stereotypes affect people's perception of who we are in a