Textile economies : power and value from the local to the transnational / / edited by Walter E. Little and Patricia A. McAnany
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| Titolo: |
Textile economies : power and value from the local to the transnational / / edited by Walter E. Little and Patricia A. McAnany
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield, INC., c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (343 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.4/7677 |
| Soggetto topico: | Textile fabrics |
| Textile industry | |
| Economic development | |
| Economic anthropology | |
| Altri autori: |
LittleWalter E. <1963->
McAnanyPatricia Ann
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Textile economies |
| ISBN: | 1-283-28362-X |
| 9786613283627 | |
| 0-7591-2063-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910820365503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; ; v.29.