Cloth and human experience
edited by Annette B. Weiner & Jane Schneider.
Bok Engelsk 1989 · Electronic books
| Utgitt | Washington : : Smithsonian Institution Press, , c1989.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xv, 431 p. ) : ill. ;
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| Opplysninger | Why cloth? Wealth, gender, and power in Oceania / Annete B. Weiner -- Cloth and the creation of ancestors in Madagascar / Gillian Feeley-Harnik -- Dressing for the next life: Raffia textile production and use among the Kuba of Zaire / Patricia Darish / Why do ladies sing the blues? Indigo dyeing, cloth production, and gender symbolism in Kodi / Janet Hoskins -- Rumpelstiltskin's bargain: folklore and the merchant capitalist intensification of linen manufacture in early modern Europe / Jane Schneider -- Spun virtue, the lacework of folly, and the world wound upside-down: seventeenth-century Dutch depictions of female handwork / Linda Stone-Ferrier -- Embroidery for tourists: a contemporary putting-out system in Oaxaca, Mexico / Ronald Waterbury -- Cloth and its function in the Inka state / John V. Murra -- Cloth, clothes, and colonialism: India in the nineteenth century / Bernard S. Cohn -- Gandhi and Khadi, the fabric of Indian independence / Susan S. Bean -- The changing fortunes of three archaic Japanese textiles / Louise Allison Cort.
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| ISBN | 1-58834-384-7
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