Aymara Weavings from Highland Bolivia
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 124
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laurie Adelson
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Allen Collier
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 82
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laurie Adelson
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marjorie Cason
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elayne Zorn
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1587295229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation of the isolated rock.
Author: Elena Phipps
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1588391310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This unique volume illustrates and discusses in detail more than 160 extraordinary fine and decorative art works of the colonial Andes, including examples of the intricate Inca weavings and metalwork that preceded the colonial era as well as a few of the remarkably inventive forms this art took after independence from Spain. An international array of scholars and experts examines the cultural context, aesthetic preoccupations, and diverse themes of art from the viceregal period, particularly the florid patternings and the fanciful beasts and hybrid creatures that have come to characterize colonial Andean art."--Jacket.
Author: Susan Kellogg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-09-02
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780198040422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWeaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women. While the book concentrates on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it covers indigenous people in other parts of South and Central America, including lowland peoples in and beyond Brazil, and Afro-indigenous peoples, such as the Garifuna, of Central America. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, it argues that change, not continuity, has been the norm for indigenous peoples whose resilience in the face of complex and long-term patterns of cultural change is due in no small part to the roles, actions, and agency of women. The book provides broad coverage of gender roles in native Latin America over many centuries, drawing upon a range of evidence from archaeology, anthropology, religion, and politics. Primary and secondary sources include chronicles, codices, newspaper articles, and monographic work on specific regions. Arguing that Latin America's indigenous women were the critical force behind the more important events and processes of Latin America's history, Kellogg interweaves the region's history of family, sexual, and labor history with the origins of women's power in prehispanic, colonial, and modern South and Central America. Shying away from interpretations that treat women as house bound and passive, the book instead emphasizes women's long history of performing labor, being politically active, and contributing to, even supporting, family and community well-being.
Author: George McCutchen McBride
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margot Blum Schevill
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-07-05
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 0292787618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, anthropologists, art historians, fiber artists, and technologists come together to explore the meanings, uses, and fabrication of textiles in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from Precolumbian times to the present. Originally published in 1991 by Garland Publishing, the book grew out of a 1987 symposium held in conjunction with the exhibit "Costume as Communication: Ethnographic Costumes and Textiles from Middle America and the Central Andes of South America" at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University.