The jingle-dress is aptly named, for it is a belted calico dress with two skirts, the outside of which is covered in rows of Red Wing chewing tobacco lids which have been rolled into cones, attached to short ribbons and sewn close together. In addition, the fancy dancers wear two bustles, one on the lower back and one between the shoulder blades. Their feathers are of a downier sort than those of the traditional dancers, and the puffy feathers of their bundles are dyed bright colors. She invariably wears a fringed shawls which she drapes over her shoulders and holds the edges in her hands as she dances. Postmodernism is A cluster of theories most often associated with a group of 20th century French philosophers including Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, et al.
Postmodernism is suspicious of subject-centered reason or philosophies of consciousness.
It has no faith in the progressivist and speculative discourses of modernity and the assumptions of the Enlightenment. It's about race, class gender, erotic identity and practice, nationality, age, and ethnicity. It's about power and powerlessness, and about empowerment. It's about threads we trace, and trace, and trace. But not to a conclusion.