Cloth and Human Experience - Hardcover

Cloth and Human Experience

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. xv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 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. Artikel-Nr. 8cb718

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