[PDF.74mz] Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba

Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba

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 | #2272490 in Books |  University of Hawaii Press |  2000-12 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Format: Illustrated | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .72 x6.04 x9.24l, | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| smart, fun, and readable|By Craig|Reads like a novel, but is also scholarly. This is a really unique ethnography! My students have loved it. Highly recommended for scholars, textile people, and Indonesia enthusiasts. Great writing, ethnographic details, and up close descriptions of the lives of an amazing range of characters from a "traditional" eastern Indonesian culture in mo|About the Author|Jill Forshee is a research fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Textiles have long been integral to the social life and cosmology of the people of East Sumba, Indonesia. In recent decades, the villagers have entered a larger world economy as their textiles have joined the commodity flow of an international "ethnic arts" market, stimulated by Indonesia's tourist trade. As the people of Sumba respond to an immensely expanded commerce in their cloth, tensions and ironies emerge between history and innovation in both cloth and lives. Usi...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba   |  Jill Forshee. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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