ISBN:
0-87474-986-7
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978-0-87474-986-1
Language:
English
Pages:
XV, 431 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry [17]
Keywords:
Soziologie Anthropologie, soziale
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Bekleidung
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Contributors -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction, JANE SCHNEIDER AND ANNETTE B. WEINER -- Part I: Cloth in Small-Scale Societies -- CHAPTER 2 Why Cloth? Wealth, Gender, and Power in Oceania, ANNETTE B. WEINER -- CHAPTER 3 Cloth and the Creation of Ancestors in Madagascar, GILLIAN FEELEY-HARNIK -- CHAPTER 4 Dressing for the Next Life: Raffia Textile Production and Use among the Kuba of Zaire, PATRICIA DARISH -- CHAPTER 5 Why Do Ladies Sing the Blues? Indigo Dyeing, Cloth Production, and Gender Symbolism in Kodi, JANET HOSKINS -- PART II Capitalism and the Meanings of Cloth -- CHAPTER 6 Rumpelstiltskin's Bargain: Folklore and the Merchant Capitalist Intensification of Linen Manufacture in Early Modern Europe, JANE SCHNEIDER -- CHAPTER 7 Spun Virtue, the Lacework of Folly, and the World Wound Upside-Down: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Depictions of Female Handwork, LINDA STONE-FERRIER -- CHAPTER 8 Embroidery for Tourists: A Contemporary Putting-Out System in Oaxaca, Mexico, RONALD WATERBURY -- PART III Cloth in Large-Scale Societies -- CHAPTER 9 Cloth and Its Function in the Inka State, JOHN V. MURRA -- CHAPTER 10 Cloth, Clothes, and Colonialism: India in the Nineteenth Century, BERNARD S. COHN -- CHAPTER 11 Gandhi and Khadi, the Fabric of Indian Independence, SUSAN S. BEAN -- CHAPTER 12 The Changing Fortunes of Three Archaic Japanese Textiles, LOUISE ALLISON CORT -- Index
Note:
"The conference, held in 1983 at Troutbeck, New York, was funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research" (Preface]Enthält eine Einführung und 11 Beiträge
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