Cloth and Human Experience

Book Overview

"Cloth and Human Experience" explores a wide variety of cultures and eras, discussing production and trade, economics, and symbolic and spiritual associations. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874749956
• ISBN13: 9780874749953
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Contents

Cloth and Human Experience edited by annette weiner & jane schneider 1989 431 pages (12 papers presented at a 1983 Werner-Gren Foundation conference dealing with the importance and significance of cloth in societies. includes madagascar, zaire, europe, mexico, kodi, Africa, Indonesia, India, Japan, Mexico and Inka and more. 27 photographs. specific themes that reveal the properties of cloth that underlie its social and political contributions within broad historical time periods

Excellent for general interest and teaching

The essays in this book are fascinating and demonstrate compelling links that fabrics play in larger cultural realms. A few of the essays in this collection have been required reading for my undergraduate (and even high school) Fibers and Weaving classes for years.