Ikat Textiles of Lamalera
Author: Ruth Barnes
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1989-06
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9004658947
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Kinship, Networks, and Exchange
Author: Thomas Schweizer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-06-13
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521590211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of articles aims at revitalizing the study of kinship and exchange in a social network perspective. It brings together studies of empirical systems of marriage and descent with investigations of the flow of material resources in societies of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe. Restudies of classic ethnographic cases and fieldwork studies of kinship and exchange demonstrate how the social and material aspects of society are related, and address issues of concern to anthropology and the neighbouring disciplines of history, sociology and economics. This book marks the emergence of an era in the study of kinship and exchange using a productive combination of ethnographic substance with formal methods, one which leaves behind older structural-functionalist and culturalist assumptions.
Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean
Author: Pedro Machado
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-02-09
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 3319582658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century, across multiple oceanic sites—from Zanzibar, Muscat and Kampala to Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka. It moves beyond usual focuses on a single fibre (such as cotton) or place (such as India) to provide a fresh, expansive perspective of the ocean as an “interaction-based arena,” with an internal dynamism and historical coherence forged by material exchange and human relationships. Contributors map shifting social, cultural and commercial circuits to chart the many histories of cloth across the region. They also trace these histories up to the present with discussions of contemporary trade in Dubai, Zanzibar, and Eritrea. Richly illustrated, this collection brings together new and diverse strands in the long story of textiles in the Indian Ocean, past and present.
Fragile Traditions
Author: Paul Michael Taylor
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780824815332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses on the complete effects of the primitive art market and various kinds of private & institutional collecting on the art traditions of Indonesia.
Sea Hunters of Indonesia
Author: Robert Harrison Barnes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780198280705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSea Hunters of Indonesia is a comprehensive study of the coastal community of Lamalera, whose traditional ways of life make it unique. One is an unusual kind of sea-fishing: the hunting of whales, porpoises, and giant manta rays. The other is the production, by the women of the community, of remarkable fine dyed textiles. Recently these traditions have come under intense pressure from external economic influences, and the people of Lamalera are starting to move into modern occupations. The community, famous for the beauty of its setting as well as for its crafts, is now a major tourist attraction, and it may now survive only as part of the tourist industry. At this crucial point in the history of the region, R. H. Barnes offers a richly detailed and beautifully illustrated picture of the culture and economy of Lamalera, the fruit of many years' study. He records all aspects of life in Lamalera, and places it in the broader context of past, present, and future of Indonesia as a whole.
The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art
Author: Gerald W. R. Ward
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 848
ISBN-13: 0195313917
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques deals with all aspects of materials, techniques, conservation, and restoration in both traditional and nontraditional media, including ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, painting, works on paper, textiles, video, digital art, and more. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in The Dictionary of Art and adding new entries, this work is a comprehensive reference resource for artists, art dealers, collectors, curators, conservators, students, researchers, and scholars." "Similar in design to The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, this one-volume reference work contains articles of various lengths in alphabetical order. The shorter, more factual articles are combined with larger, multi-section articles tracing the development of materials and techniques in various geographical locations. The Encyclopedia provides unparalleled scope and depth, and it offers fully updated articles and bibliography as well as over 150 illustrations and color plates." "The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques offers scholarly information on materials and techniques in art for anyone who studies, creates, collects, or deals in works of art. The entries are written to be accessible to a wide range of readers, and the work is designed as a reliable and convenient resource covering this essential area in the visual arts."
The Cambridge Global History of Fashion: Volume 1
Author: Christopher Breward
Publisher: Cambridge History of Fashion
Published: 2023-08-17
Total Pages: 759
ISBN-13: 1108495567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how the long history of fashion from antiquity to c. 1800 created global networks and animated world communities.
Arts in the Margins of World Encounters
Author: Willemijn de Jong
Publisher: Vernon Press
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1648892752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Arts in the Margins of World Encounters' presents original contributions that deal with artworks of differently marginalized people—such as ethnic minorities, refugees, immigrants, disabled people, and descendants of slaves—, a wide variety of art forms—like clay figures, textile, paintings, poems, museum exhibits and theatre performances—, and original data based on committed, long-term fieldwork and/or archival research in Brazil, Martinique, Rwanda, India, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. The volume develops theoretical approaches inspired by innovative theorists and is based on currently debated analytical categories including the ethnographic turn in contemporary art, polycentric aesthetics, and aesthetic cannibalization, among others. This collection also incorporates fascinating and intriguing contemporary cases, but with solid theoretical arguments and grounds. 'Arts in the Margins of World Encounters' will appeal to students at all levels, scholars, and practitioners in arts, aesthetics, anthropology, social inequality, and discrimination, as well as researchers in other fields, including post-colonialism and cultural organizations.
Between the Folds
Author: Jill Forshee
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780824823467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTextiles have long been integral to the social life and cosmology of the people of East Sumba, Indonesia. In recent decades, the people of East Sumba 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 Sumba's villagers respond to an immensely expanded commerce in their cloth, tensions and ironies emerge between historical and innovative forms in both cloth and lives. Such responses involve gender, ethnicity, and social rank, and are especially highlighted within global market spaces. The stories in Between the Folds vary widely and include those of animists, Christians, and Moslems; Sumbanese, Indonesian Chinese, and Westerners; inventive geniuses, master artisans, and exploited weavers; rogues, entrepreneurs, nobles, and servants.
Fashionable Traditions
Author: Ayami Nakatani
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2020-01-28
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1498586503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTextiles play a decisive role in history: attire not only indicates status, gender, ethnicity, and religion but illustrates how such boundaries are continuously being negotiated, shifted, and recreated. Fashionable Traditions captures the complex reality of Asian handmade textile production and consumption. From traditionalist discourse and cultural authenticity to fashion and market trends, the contributors to this collection demonstrate the multilayered influence of often contradictory forces. In-depth, ethnographic case studies reveal the entangled relationships between local artisans, external interventions, and consumers, while acknowledging the broader frameworks in which such relationships are situated. Together these stories offer a vivid account of the socio-economic, political, and cultural dynamics in various parts of Asia and emphasize that fashion is neither a Western prerogative nor do its roots reside solely in the West.
