Embroidering lives: women's work and skill in the Lucknow embroidery industry
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Main Author: Wilkinson-Weber, Clare M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press © 1999
Series:SUNY series in the anthropology of work
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Portions of the text have previously been published by the journal Ethnology, Volume 36(1), Winter 1997, p. 49-65
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index
Chapter 1 - Chikan in Historical Context - 1 -- - Chapter 2 - The Division of Labor - 25 -- - Chapter 3 - Embroiderers in Social Perspective - 59 -- - Chapter 4 - Work and Wages - 87 -- - Chapter 5 - Skill and Knowledge in Fine Chikan Embroidery - 123 -- - Chapter 6 - Development Schemes and State Patronage - 157
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 239 pages)
ISBN:0585089086
9780585089089
0791440877
0791440885

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