Suely Kofes is a full professor in the Department of Anthropology, ppgas and PhD Program in Social Sciences. She is coordinator of the Laboratório Antropológico de Grafia e Imagem (LA'grima), ifch, Unicamp. She has a bachelor's degree in History (ufgo) and a master's degree in Social Anthropology. She obtained her doctorate at the École des Hautes Études and at the usp. She was a visiting professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Cambridge (1999/2000), the University of Illinois and ehess (2006-2007). Publications: Mulher, Mulheres: Identidade, Diferença e Desigualdade na relação entre patroas e empregadas domésticas, Editora da Unicamp (2000), Uma trajetória, em narrativas (Mercado das Letras, 2015), Vida&Grafias, Lamparina.

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Debates on Cultural Heritage and the Commercialization of Collective Expressions

  • Aura Cumes
  • Jesús Antonio Machuca Ramírez
  • Suely Kofes
  • Xóchitl Eréndira Zolueta Juan

  • moderator Rachel Barber

In the last decade, a wave of accusations has been launched against brands and companies for using cultural elements of indigenous groups. In Mexico, several cases have had considerable resonance: the complaint by the Mixe community of Tlahuitoltepec against the French company Isabel Marant for copying its Xaam nïxuy blouse; the protest by the Secretary of Culture, Alejandra Frausto, against the fashion house of Carolina Herrera for the use of embroidery from Tenango de Doria and the sarape from Saltillo; and on three different occasions the fashion clothing company Zara has been accused of plagiarism for using designs from Aguacatenango, Chiapas.