Weaving a future : tourism, cloth & culture on an Andean island /

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The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zorn, Elayne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2004.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Quechua textile fabrics > Peru > Taquili.
Quechua business enterprises > Peru > Taquili.
Quechua Indians > Clothing > Peru > Taquili.
Hand weaving > Peru > Taquili.
Textile design > Peru > Taquili.
Textiles et tissus quechua > Pérou > Taquile, Île.
Entreprises quechua > Pérou > Taquile, Île.
Tissage à la main > Pérou > Taquile, Île.
Textiles et tissus > Dessins > Pérou > Taquile, Île.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > General.
Economic history
Hand weaving
Manners and customs
Quechua business enterprises
Quechua Indians > Clothing
Quechua textile fabrics
Textile design
Quechua
Textilhandwerk
Tourismus
Taquili (Peru) > Social life and customs.
Taquili (Peru) > Economic conditions.
Taquile, Île (Pérou) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Taquile, Île (Pérou) > Conditions économiques.
Peru > Taquili
Taquile
Quechua.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Tourism, cloth, and culture
  • Taquile Island in Lake Titicaca
  • The cloth of contemporary Incas
  • Transforming value by commoditizing cloth
  • Visit Taquile--Isle of peace and enchantment
  • Weaving a future?
  • Traveling to Taquile.

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