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Titolo |
Textile economies [[electronic resource] ] : power and value from the local to the transnational / / edited by Walter E. Little and Patricia A. McAnany |
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Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield, INC., c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-28362-X |
9786613283627 |
0-7591-2063-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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Collana |
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Society for economic anthropology monograph series ; ; v.29 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LittleWalter E. <1963-> |
McAnanyPatricia Ann |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Textile fabrics |
Textile industry |
Economic development |
Economic anthropology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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