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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457784903321

Titolo

Textile economies [[electronic resource] ] : power and value from the local to the transnational / / edited by Walter E. Little and Patricia A. McAnany

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield, INC., c2011

ISBN

1-283-28362-X

9786613283627

0-7591-2063-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Collana

Society for economic anthropology monograph series ; ; v.29

Altri autori (Persone)

LittleWalter E. <1963->

McAnanyPatricia Ann

Disciplina

338.4/7677

Soggetti

Textile fabrics

Textile industry

Economic development

Economic anthropology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PartI. CREATIVITY AND VALUE; Ch01. Exchange without Brokers; Ch02. Heritage and Authorship Debates in Three Sumatran Songkets; Ch03. Creativity, Place, and Commodities; Ch04. Tivaivai and Value in the CookIs lands Ritual Economy; Ch05. The Political Economy of an Art Form; PartII. THE POWER OF CLOTH AND THE SANCTITY OF POWER; Ch06. Textiles and Chimú Identity under Inka Hegemony on the North Coast of Peru; Ch07. Late Classic Maya Textile Economies; Ch08. Hohokam Cotton; Ch09. Neighborly Ties and Sohbet

Ch10. Sanctity, Social Distance, and the Price of Cloth in a Moroccan SuqPartIII. (RE)INVENTED TRADITIONS IN TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXT; Ch11. Good Hands; Ch12. Recommunitizing Practice, Refashioning Capital; Ch13. The Decline of a Weaving Cooperative in Western Turkey; Ch14. Made in Italy; Ch15. Creating Fame and Fortune from the Ruins of Handloom in Kerala, Southern India; Index; About the Editors and



Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The economy of textiles provides insight into the fabric of social relations, local and global politics, and diverse ideologies. Textile production and exchange represent a key node for the intersections of multiple aspects of ancient and modern economies, including social-class relations, gender, tourism, exchange, commerce, and transpolity relationships. A political economy of textiles, discussed from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, offers ways to understand cloth and clothing as parts of mutually constitutive processes that shape and reflect economic practices, cult

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Record Nr.

UNICASBVE0058099

Autore

Lucianus

Titolo

Luciani Samosatensis Opera / ex recognitione Caroli Jacobitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lipsiae, : in aedibus B. G. Teubneri

Descrizione fisica

volumi ; 19 cm

Collana

Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana

Disciplina

187

808.5

887.01

Soggetti

Luciano : di Samosata - Opere - Edizioni critiche

Lingua di pubblicazione

Greco antico

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia