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Textiles have been a highly valued and central part of the politics of human societies across culture divides and over millennia. The economy of textiles provides insight into the fabric of social relations, local and global politics, and diverse ideologies. Textiles are a material element of society that fosters the study of continuities and disjunctions in the economic and social realities of past and present societies. From stick-loom weaving to transnational factories, the production of cloth and its transformation into clothing and other woven goods offers a way to study the linkages between economics and politics. The volume is oriented around a number of themes: textile production, textiles as trade goods, textiles as symbols, textiles in tourism, and textiles in the transnational processes. Textile Economies appeals to a broad range of scholars interested in the intersection of material culture, political economy, and globalization, such as archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, economists, museum curators, and historians.
About the Author: Walter E. Little is associate professor of Anthropology at the University at Albany, SUNY, and director of the Ethnographic Field School in Guatemala. He is the author of Mayas in the Marketplace and co-author of Mayas in Postwar Guatemala. Patricia A. McAnany is Kenan Eminent Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Ancestral Maya Economies in Archaeological Perspective and Living with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780759120617
  • Publisher: Altamira Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Altamira Press
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 625 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0759120617
  • Publisher Date: 22 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 342
  • Series Title: Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph
  • Sub Title: Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational
  • Width: 155 mm


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