Introduction
Part I. Creativity and Value
Chapter 1. Exchange without Brokers: Weaver-Client Relationships in
Senegal
Laura L. Cochrane
Chapter 2. Heritage and Authorship Debates in Three Sumatran
Songkets
Susan Rodgers
Chapter 3. Creativity, Place, and Commodities: The Making of Public
Economies in Andean Apparel Industries
Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, Jason Antrosio, and Eric C. Jones
Chapter 4. Tivaivai and Value in the Cook Islands Ritual Economy:
The Creation of Value, Values, and Valuables in a Diasporic
Community
Jane Horan
Chapter 5. The Political Economy of an Art Form: The Akotifahana
Cloth of Madagascar
Sarah Fee
Part II. The Power of Cloth and the Sanctity of Power
Chapter 6. Textiles and Chimu Identity under Inka Hegemony on the
North Coast of Peru
Cathy Lynne Costin
Chapter 7. Late Classic Maya Textile Economies: An Object History
Approach
Christina T. Halperin
Chapter 8. Hohokam Cotton: Irrigation, Production, and Trade in
Perhistory
Robert C. Hunt
Chapter 9. Neighborly Ties and Sohbet: Global Capitalism and the
Work of Weaving in Konya, Turkey
Damla Isik
Chapter 10. Sanctity, Social Distance, and the Price of Cloth in a
Moroccan Suq
John A. Napora
Part III. (Re)invented Traditions in Transnational Context
Chapter 11. Good Hands: Silk Weaving and Transnational Artisan
Partnerships in Cambodia
Susan Falls and Jessica Smith
Chapter 12. Recommunitizing Practice, Refashionizing Capital:
Artisans and Entrepreneurship in a Philippine Textile Industry
B. Lynne Milgram
Chapter 13. The Decline of a Weaving Cooperative in Western
Turkey
Kimberly Hart
Chapter 14. Made in Italy: Metaphors for Merchandising Textiles in
a Global Economy
Joan Weibel-Orlando
Chapter 15. Creating Fame and Fortune from the Ruins of Handloom in
Kerala, Southern India
Lucy Norris
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.
Spanning every continent, and a temporal arc that begins in
pre-history and takes us to the present, this edited collection
demonstrates how much we can learn through textiles—among the most
potent, meaningful, and desired of human creations. Privileging the
artisanal domain of textile production, while at the same time
acknowledging the significance of industrialism, the respective
authors illuminate labor processes, societal inequality, global
interactions, and the constitution of both spiritual and material
value.
*Jane Schneider, City University of New York*
Textile Economies brings together a group of intelligently
researched and argued articles that examine how different systems
of value play into the lives of textiles and the people who create,
market, and consume them. Relationships of power and strategies to
negotiate these thread through richly detailed case studies that
focus on the local but are ever mindful of the global flows and
creative (re)imaginings in contemporary and historical contexts. A
welcome contribution to the growing literature on the social life
of textiles.
*Carol Hendrickson, Marlboro College*
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