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Textile Economies
Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational
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Textile Economies
Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational
About this book
Textiles have been a highly valued and central part of the politics of human societies across culture divides and over millennia. The economy of textiles provides insight into the fabric of social relations, local and global politics, and diverse ideologies. Textiles are a material element of society that fosters the study of continuities and disjunctions in the economic and social realities of past and present societies. From stick-loom weaving to transnational factories, the production of cloth and its transformation into clothing and other woven goods offers a way to study the linkages between economics and politics. The volume is oriented around a number of themes: textile production, textiles as trade goods, textiles as symbols, textiles in tourism, and textiles in the transnational processes. Textile Economies appeals to a broad range of scholars interested in the intersection of material culture, political economy, and globalization, such as archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, economists, museum curators, and historians.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Creativity and Value
- Chapter 1: Exchange without Brokers
- Chapter 2: Heritage and Authorship Debates in Three Sumatran Songkets
- Chapter 3: Creativity, Place, and Commodities
- Chapter 4: Tivaivai and Value in the Cook Islands Ritual Economy
- Chapter 5: The Political Economy of an Art Form
- Part II: The Power of Cloth and the Sanctity of Power
- Chapter 6: Textiles and Chimú Identity under Inka Hegemony on the North Coast of Peru
- Chapter 7: Late Classic Maya Textile Economies
- Chapter 8: Hohokam Cotton
- Chapter 9: Neighborly Ties and Sohbet
- Chapter 10: Sanctity, Social Distance, and the Price of Cloth in a Moroccan Suq
- Part III: (Re)invented Traditions in Transnational Context
- Chapter 11: Good Hands
- Chapter 12: Recommunitizing Practice, Refashioning Capital
- Chapter 13: The Decline of a Weaving Cooperative in Western Turkey
- Chapter 14: Made in Italy
- Chapter 15: Creating Fame and Fortune from the Ruins of Handloom in Kerala, Southern India
- About the Editors and Contributors