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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Annette B Weiner; Jane Schneider |
| ISBN: | 0874749867 9780874749861 0874749956 9780874749953 |
| OCLC Number: | 18779072 |
| Description: | xv, 431 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry |
| Responsibility: | edited by Annette B. Weiner & Jane Schneider. |
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