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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 [and others].
Publication
Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, ©2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Kusimba, Chapurukha Makokha.
  • Odland, J. Claire.
  • Bronson, Bennet, 1938-
Description
196 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 31 cm.
Series Statement
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History textile series ; no. 7
Uniform Title
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History textile series ; no. 7.
Alternative Title
Madagascar
Subject
  • Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 > Travel > Madagascar
  • Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 > Ethnological collections
  • Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953
  • Madagascar
  • Material culture > Madagascar
  • Textile fabrics > Madagascar
  • Clothing and dress > Symbolic aspects > Madagascar
  • Ethnological expeditions > Madagascar
  • Anthropology > Private collections
  • Antiquities > Collectors and collecting
  • Clothing and dress > Symbolic aspects
  • Ethnological expeditions
  • Manners and customs
  • Material culture
  • Textile fabrics
  • Travel
  • Kleidung
  • Textilherstellung
  • Textilien
  • Tradition
  • Webarbeit
  • Textielkunst
  • Madagascar > Antiquities > Collectors and collecting
  • Madagascar > Social life and customs
  • Madagaskar
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
  • 9780930741945
  • 0930741951
  • 9780930741952
LCCN
2004019099
OCLC
  • ocm56368411
  • 56368411
  • SCSB-1370246
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library