Weaving identities : construction of dress and self in a highland Guatemala town /

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"An innovative ethnography of Maya traje that describes the social life of cloth, its role in the construction of identity, and its part in the changing structure of regional gender relations. Traje empowers, brings women into the global market, and is an enduring of symbol cultural knowledge&q...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hendrickson, Carol Elaine, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 1995.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Cakchikel Indians > Clothing.
Cakchikel textile fabrics > Guatemala > Tecpán Guatemala.
Costume > Symbolic aspects > Guatemala > Tecpán Guatemala.
Costume > Social aspects > Guatemala > Tecpán Guatemala.
Textiles et tissus cakchiquel > Guatemala > Tecpán Guatemala.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Beauty & Grooming.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Cakchikel Indians > Clothing
Cakchikel textile fabrics
Costume > Social aspects
Costume > Symbolic aspects
Manners and customs
Kleding.
Culturele identiteit.
Cakchiqueles.
Cakchiquel (Indiens) > Costumes.
Costume > Guatemala > Tecpán.
Textiles et tissus Cakchiquel > Guatemala > Tecpán.
Tecpán Guatemala (Guatemala) > Social life and customs.
Guatemala > Tecpán Guatemala
Tecpán (Guatemala) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables, Figures, and Photographs; Acknowledgments; Note on Kaqchikel Orthography; 1. Introduction; 2. The Geography of Clothing; 3. The Enduring Indian: Images of the Maya; 4. Between Birth and Death: Traje and the Human Life Cycle; 5. The Cultural Biography of Traje; 6. Transforming the Traditional: The Creative in Traje; 7. To Wear Traje Is to Say We Are Maya
  • Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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