Textile Economies Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational

by Little, Walter E.; McAnany, Patricia A.

• ISBN13: 9780759120617
• ISBN10: 0759120617
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-22
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Textiles have been a highly valued and central part of human societies across culture divides and over millennia. This volume is centered around the a number of themes textile production, textiles as trade goods, textile as symbols, textiles in tourism and textile the transnational processes. Textile Economies appeals to abroad range of scholars image in the intersection of material culture political economy, and globalization such as sociologists, cultural anthropologists, economists, Museum curators and historians. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Waher E. little is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Albany sun director of the Ethnographic Field School in Guatemala. He is the author of Mayas Marketplace and Co-author of authors of Mayas in Postwar Guatemala. Patricia A. McAnany is Kenan Eminent Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Ancestral Maya Economies in Anthropology Perspective and Living with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Creativity and Value
Exchange without Brokers: Weaver-Client Relationships in Senegal	p. 3
Heritage and Authorship Debates in Three Sumatran Songkets	p. 21
Creativity, Place, and Commodities: The Making of Public Economies in Andean Apparel Industries	p. 39
Tivaivai and Value in the Cook Islands Ritual Economy: The Creation of Value, Values, and Valuables in a Diasporic Community	p. 57
The Political Economy of an Art Form: The Akotifahana Cloth of Madagascar	p. 77
The Power of Cloth and the Sanctity of Power
Textiles and Chimu Identity under Inka Hegemony on the North Coast of Peru	p. 101
Late Classic Maya Textile Economies: An Object History Approach	p. 125
Hohokam Cotton: Irrigation, Production, and Trade in Prehistory	p. 147
Neighborly Ties and Sohbet: Global Capitalism and the Work of Weaving in Konya, Turkey	p. 163
Sanctity, Social Distance, and the Price of Cloth in a Moroccan Suq	p. 181
(Re)invented Traditions in Transnational Context
Good Hands: Silk Weaving and Transnational Artisan Partnerships in Cambodia	p. 201
Recommunitizing Practice, Refashioning Capital: Artisans and Entrepreneurship in a Philippine Textile Industry	p. 223
The Decline of a Weaving Cooperative in Western Turkey	p. 245
Made in Italy: Metaphors and Merchandising Textiles in a Global Economy	p. 263
Creating Fame and Fortune from the Ruins of Handloom in Kerala, Southern India	p. 285
Index	p. 307
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 311
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