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Title:

Textile traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes : an anthology / edited by Margot Blum Schevil, Janet Catherine Berlo, Edward B. Dwyer.

Edition:

1st University of Texas Press ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

1996

Description:

xxi, 503 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Indian textile fabrics--Mexico.
Indian textile fabrics--Guatemala.
Indian textile fabrics--Andes Region.
Indians of Mexico--Costume.
Indians of Central America--Costume--Guatemala.
Indians of South America--Costume--Andes Region.

Other Authors:

Schevill, Margot.
Berlo, Janet Catherine.
Dwyer, Edward Bridgman.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Garland, 1991. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The communicative power of cloth and its creation / Margot Blum Schevill -- Spinning and weaving as female gender identity in post-classic Mexico / Sharisse D. McCafferty and Geoffrey G. McCafferty -- Communicative imagery in Guatemalan Indian dress / Cherri M. Pancake -- A line at a time: innovative patterning in the Isthmus of (Isthmian) Mexico / Pamela Scheinman -- Dress and civil-religious hierarchy in Solola, Guatemala / Guisela Mayen -- Dress and the human landscape in Guatemala: the case of Tecpan, Guatemala / Carol Hendrickson -- Woman's costume as a code in Comalapa, Guatemala / Linda Asturias de Barrios -- We are sons of Atahualpa and we will win: traditional dress in Otavalo and Saraguro, Ecuador / Lynn A. Meisch -- Regional dress of the Colca Valley, Peru: a dynamic tradition / Blenda Femenias -- Nature versus culture: the image of the uncivilized wild-man in textiles from the Department of Cuzco, Peru / Lee Anne Wilson -- Clothes and identity in the Central Andes: Province of Abancay, Peru / Raquel Ackerman -- Ethnic dress and Calcha festivals, Bolivia / Mary Ann Medlin -- Dual-lease weaving: an Andean loom technology / Ed Franquemont -- Resist dyeing in Mexico: comments on its history, significance, and prevalence / Virginia Davis -- The Ikat shawl traditions of northern Peru and southern Ecuador / Laura Martin Miller -- The dyes used in Guatemalan textiles: a diachronic approach / Robert S. Carlsen and David A. Wenger -- Export markets and their effects on indigenous craft production: the case of the weavers of Tcotitlan del Valle, Mexico / Lynn Stephen -- The marketing of Maya textiles in highland Chiapas, Mexico / Walter F. Morris, Jr. -- Beyond Bricolage: women and aesthetic strategies in Latin American textiles / Janet Catherine Berlo.

ISBN:

9780292777149 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0292777140 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)34243435

LCCN:

96010252

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)