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Unwrapping the textile traditions of Madagascar /
- Title
- Unwrapping the textile traditions of Madagascar / Chapurukha M. Kusimba, J. Claire Odland, and Bennet Bronson, editors ; contributors, Bennet Bronson ... [et al.].
- Publication
- Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, c2004.
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- Description
- 196 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 31 cm.
- Series Statement
- UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History textile series ; no. 7
- Alternative Title
- Madagascar
- Subject
- Clothing and dress > Symbolic aspects > Madagascar
- Ethnological expeditions > Madagascar
- Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 > Ethnological collections
- Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 > Travel > Madagascar
- Madagascar > Collectors and collecting
- Madagascar > Social life and customs
- Material culture > Madagascar
- Textile fabrics > Madagascar
- Note
- "A joint publication of the Field Museum and the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-188) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction to Madagascar and its textile traditions / Chapurukha M. Kusimba -- Ralph Linton in Madagascar, 1926-1927 / Liliana Mosca -- Market day in Madagascar / Ralph Linton -- The W.T. Rawleigh Collection of Malagasy Portraits, 1910-1930 / Chantal Radimilahy -- Betsileo textiles: negotiating identity between the living and dead / Rebecca L. Green -- Textile traditions of southwestern Madagascar / Sarah Fee -- Beyond the Lamba: costume in the southeast of Madagascar / Wendy Walker ... [et al.] -- Saklava textiles in the field museum collection / J. Claire Odland -- History and change in the weaving of highland Madagascar / Simon Peers -- The silk moths of Madagascar / Richard Peigler -- Wrapping up Malagasy textiles / Bennet Bronson -- Appendix A: The Lamba song / Michel Razafiarivony -- Appendix B: Lamba and proverbs / Chantal Radimilahy.
- ISBN
- 0930741943 (hard cover)
- 0930741951 (soft cover)
- LCCN
- 2004019099
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library