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Textile economies : power and value from the local to the transnational /
The economy of textiles provides insight into the fabric of social relations, local and global politics, and diverse ideologies. Textile production and exchange represent a key node for the intersections of multiple aspects of ancient and modern economies, including social-class relations, gender, t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Lanham, Md. :
Altamira Press,
c2011.
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| Colección: | Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ;
v. 29. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Creativity and Value
- Chapter 1: Exchange without Brokers
- Chapter 2: Heritage and Authorship Debates in Three Sumatran Songkets
- Chapter 3: Creativity, Place, and Commodities
- Chapter 4: Tivaivai and Value in the Cook Islands Ritual Economy
- Chapter 5: The Political Economy of an Art Form
- Part II: The Power of Cloth and the Sanctity of Power
- Chapter 6: Textiles and Chimú Identity under Inka Hegemony on the North Coast of Peru
- Chapter 7: Late Classic Maya Textile Economies
- Chapter 8: Hohokam Cotton
- Chapter 9: Neighborly Ties and Sohbet
- Chapter 10: Sanctity, Social Distance, and the Price of Cloth in a Moroccan Suq
- Part III: (Re)invented Traditions in Transnational Context
- Chapter 11: Good Hands
- Chapter 12: Recommunitizing Practice, Refashioning Capital
- Chapter 13: The Decline of a Weaving Cooperative in Western Turkey
- Chapter 14: Made in Italy
- Chapter 15: Creating Fame and Fortune from the Ruins of Handloom in Kerala, Southern India
- About the Editors and Contributors.