Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Austin : University of Texas Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

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

Description

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

Summary

"Chapters provide detailed information on manufacturing (spinning, weaving, dyeing, decorating); communicative significance (ethnicity, identity, tradition, rank, geographic origin); and marketing and commercialization among contemporary groups of indigenous descent"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Subject

• Indian textile fabrics > Mexico
• Indian textile fabrics > Guatemala
• Indian textile fabrics > Andes Region
• Indians of Mexico > Clothing
• Indians of Central America > Clothing > Guatemala
• Indians of South America > Clothing > Andes Region

Note

• Originally published: New York : Garland, 1991.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 Sololá, Guatemala / Guisela Mayén -- Dress and the human landscape in Guatemala: the case of Tecpán, 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 Teotitlán 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

0292777140 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96010252^

OCLC

• 34243435
• SCSB-10452778

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library