African lace-bark in the Caribbean : the construction of race, class and gender / / Steeve O. Buckridge |
Autore | Buckridge Steeve O. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina | 391/.208625098611 |
Soggetto topico |
Tapa - Social aspects - Caribbean Area
Women slaves - Clothing - Caribbean Area Black people - Clothing - Caribbean Area Black people - Material culture - Caribbean Area Clothing and dress - Caribbean Area - History Textile design & theory |
ISBN |
1-4742-8533-3
1-4725-6932-6 1-4725-6931-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Pre-history to early slave trade : "people of the forest" -- Plantation Jamaica : "controlling the silver" -- Victorian Jamaica : "fancy fans and doilies". |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798337103321 |
Buckridge Steeve O. | ||
London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, , 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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African lace-bark in the Caribbean : the construction of race, class and gender / / Steeve O. Buckridge |
Autore | Buckridge Steeve O. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina | 391/.208625098611 |
Soggetto topico |
Tapa - Social aspects - Caribbean Area
Women slaves - Clothing - Caribbean Area Blacks - Clothing - Caribbean Area Blacks - Material culture - Caribbean Area Clothing and dress - Caribbean Area - History Textile design & theory |
ISBN |
1-4742-8533-3
1-4725-6932-6 1-4725-6931-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Pre-history to early slave trade : "people of the forest" -- Plantation Jamaica : "controlling the silver" -- Victorian Jamaica : "fancy fans and doilies". |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812884903321 |
Buckridge Steeve O. | ||
London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc, , 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Unwrapping Tongan barkcloth : encounters, creativity and female agency / / Fanny Wonu Veys |
Autore | Veys Fanny Wonu |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, tables, maps |
Disciplina | 306.4/6099612 |
Soggetto topico |
Tapa - Tonga
Tapa - Social aspects - Tonga Women - Tonga - Social conditions Material culture - Tonga Textile design & theory |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4742-8333-0
1-4742-8331-4 1-4742-8330-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
pt. 1. Encounters: Awakening European minds -- European impressions -- The quest for barkcloth names -- The ancestry of barkcloth -- 2. Creating barkcloth -- Story of a tree -- Substance of color -- Rubbing boards -- Sticky stuff -- Supersizing it -- Working together -- 3. Collecting barkcloth -- Enticing cloth -- Barkcloth appropriations -- the Alexander Shaw books -- "Spanish Lake" -- Lost collections? -- Decreasing interest -- Beachcombers, merchants, and whalers -- Missionaries -- Collecting souvenirs.
pt. 2. Creativity: Creativity in shapes and forms -- Tongan-style barkcloth -- Barkcloth design through time --Barkcloth circulation -- Imagining and forging the tongan land -- Between the cross and the cloth -- Before missionary arrival -- Missionary failure and uncertainties, 1797-1827 -- Triumphant Christianity, 1828-1860 -- "Civilizing mission," gender, industriousness and economic policies --Creating beautiful and moral bodies -- Missionary attitudes and an east-west divide -- Wesleyan and Marist competition -- Barkcloth-a way of being in the world. pt. 3. Female agency -- Capturing the "Female essence"? -- Enveloped by ngatu -- Defining koloa -- Value of koloa -- Are koloa gendered? -- A feast for the senses -- A modern dynast of royals -- Royal ceremonies-a wedding, two funerals, and a coronation -- Characteristics of barkcloth -- Conflated sensations -- Conclusion- encounters, creativity, and female agency -- Encounters-surprising and vital occurrences -- Creativity-ingenious imagination -- Female agency-prestigious mediation. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155086803321 |
Veys Fanny Wonu | ||
London, England : , : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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