Item #152660 The Transformative Power of Cloth in Southeast Asia. Lynne Milgram, Penny Van Esterik.
The Transformative Power of Cloth in Southeast Asia
The Transformative Power of Cloth in Southeast Asia
The Transformative Power of Cloth in Southeast Asia
The Transformative Power of Cloth in Southeast Asia
The Transformative Power of Cloth in Southeast Asia
The Transformative Power of Cloth in Southeast Asia

The Transformative Power of Cloth in Southeast Asia

Montreal, QC: The Canadian Asian Studies Association, 1993. Softcover. Color-illus. glossy wraps with black lettering on white spine. 186 pp. with 3 bw illus. VG, clean bright, tight; unread; textile museum ex-lib. copy with cover sticker, bar code sticker; blind stamp on title page; gift bookplate from editor; lib. gift notation on contents page. Item #152660
ISBN: 0969087772

Proceedings from the symposium held July 1993 at The Museum for Textiles, Toronto. With an introduction and three main sections - Cloth in Motion: Transformation and Process; Technology and the Power of Production; and Textiles and Texts: The Power to Communicate and M ark Identity. Includes papers by Stephen R. Inglis (Kinship By the Yard: A Note on Cloth in South Asia); H. Leedom Lefferst, Jr. (Transformation of the Naak in Thai-Lao Theravada Buddhism); Penny Van Esterik (Cutting Up Culture: Colonizing Costumes); Rosalind C. Morris (The Empress's New Clothes: Dressing and Redressing Modernity in Northern Thai Spirit Mediumship); John E. Vollmer (The Foot-Braced Body Tension Loom Reconsidered); Lynne Milgram ( (Re)Production: Reconsidering the Analysis of Houehold Textile Production in Highland Luzon, Philippines); Villia Jefremovas (Maids, Money and Material: Class, Gender and Textiles in Northern Luzon, Philippines); Kathy M'Closkey ( (Mis)Reading Textiles as Texts: A Critique); Sandra A. Niessen (Words Can't Weave Cloth: Limits of the Textual for the Weave Technical); Astri Wright (Ikat as Metaphor for Iban: Women Artists' Creative, Ritual and Social Powers in Borneo); Ann Goldman (Lao Mien Embroidery: Migration and Change); and Sandra Cate (Mien Embroidery: Aspects of Change and Exchange).

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