Part V. Performing the Political in Oceanian Textile Cultures: Collectivity, Syncretism, and Globalization / Unraveling the Fabric of the Past: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Archaeological Textiles / Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll. Textile Cultures in the Early Modern World / Robert S. DuPlessis -- Rewriting Textile Culture with Woven Words: "Oro es tu hilar" by Chilean Poet Cecilia Vicù¨na / Meredith G. Clark -- Branding Tradition: The Commercialization of Hand Embroidery in Gujarat / Eiluned Edwards -- "The Real Thing": How Object Analysis Unlocks Meaning and Enriches Documentary Evidence / Adrienne D. Hood -- Part II. Textiles, Trade, and Global Culture -- Reading Textiles: Transmission and Technology of Silk Road Textiles in the First Millennium / Angela Sheng -- West Africa: Technology, Tradition, and Lurex Revisited / John Picton -- Textiles of Eastern and Southern Africa / Chris Spring -- Remaking Tradition in Art and Design in Pakistan / Naazish Ata-Ullah, Zeb Bilal and Shehnaz Ismail -- Part III. The Social Fabric: The Politics and Poetics of Cloth -- Fabricating Identity: Textiles in the Pacific / Paul Sharrad -- Stitching (in) Trauma: Constructing Identity in Thread Behind Prison Bars / Maureen Daly Goggin -- Creative Tensions: Making (It), Unmaking, and Making Do in Textiles Informed by Feminism / Alexandra Kokoli -- Spinning a Yarn of One's Own / Christine Checinska -- Pictures and Polemics: Muslim Veiling Practices in Contemporary Art / Valerie Behiery -- The Subversive Stitch Revisited / Lisa Vinebaum -- Part IV. Conceptual Boundaries -- Modernism's Roots in the Domestic, Decorative, and Vernacular Through Textiles / Virginia Gardner Troy -- Material Strategies: Cloth and Textile Metaphors in Modern and Contemporary Art / Jennifer Harris -- Pragmatics of Attachment and Detachment: A Constellatory Reinscription of Textile / Maxine Bristow -- Japanese Textile Culture: The Example of Junichi Arai and Five Other Creators / Akiko Moriyama -- Stories of Innovation: Fabrication in Africa and Beyond / Atta Kwami -- Part V. Reception and Representation -- Around the World in 80 Biennials: Curating Lausanne, Hangzhou, Kaunas / Janis Jefferies and Lee Weinberg -- Indigenous Textiles of North America: A Century of Exhibitions / Elizabeth Kalbfleisch and Janet Catherine Berlo -- Valorizing Gee's Bend Quilts: Affinity, Adjacency, and the Modern Eye / Karin E. Peterson and Leisa Rundquist -- Performing the Political in Oceanian Textile Cultures: Collectivity, Syncretism, and Globalization / Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll.
Summary:
"Textiles are rarely preserved in archaeological contexts, often leading to an incomplete and even biased picture of their role in past cultures. When textiles do survive, however, a wide range of interdisciplinary methods and approaches can be applied to them, leading to information regarding their date, raw materials, and provenance. Indirect evidence consisting of archaeological textile tools, written sources, iconography, as well as archaeobotanical and archaeozoological remains can provide additional evidence about textile production, use, and economy of the resources. This empirical data obtained from the extant archaeological textile finds informs cultural aspects, such as the role of gender in cloth manufacture, long-distance trade in textiles, and the use of textiles for signaling identities"-- Provided by publisher.
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