1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910716337703321

Titolo

Amendment of Library of Congress trust fund act. January 5, 1926. -- Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , 1926

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 pages)

Collana

House report / 69th Congress, 1st session. House ; ; no. 42

[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial no. 8531]

Altri autori (Persone)

LuceRobert <1862-1946> (Republican (MA))

Soggetti

Charitable contributions

Legislative amendments

Trusts and trustees

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

FDLP item number not assigned.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781874503321

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

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