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

• 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
• 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: 979-82-16-23126-4; 1-283-28362-X; 9786613283627; 0-7591-2063-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966943603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; ; v.29.