Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba

Textiles have long been integral to the social life and cosmology of the people of East Sumba, Indonesia. In recent decades, Sumbanese have entered a larger world economy as their textiles have joined the commodity flow of an international "ethnic arts" market stimulated by Indonesia'...

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Main Author: Forshee, Jill (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2000]
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Summary:Textiles have long been integral to the social life and cosmology of the people of East Sumba, Indonesia. In recent decades, Sumbanese have entered a larger world economy as their textiles have joined the commodity flow of an international "ethnic arts" market stimulated by Indonesia's tourist trade. Through the individual stories of those involved in the contemporary production and trade of local cloth-including animists, Christians, and Moslems; Sumbanese, Indonesian Chinese, and Westerners; inventive geniuses, master artisans, and exploited weavers; rogues, entrepeneurs, nobles, and servants-a vivid account emerges of the inner workings of a so-called "traditional" society and its arts responding inventively to decades of international collecting
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages)
ISBN:9780824861636
DOI:10.1515/9780824861636

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