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Swept under the rug : a hidden history of Navajo weaving / Kathy M'Closkey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- M'Closkey, Kathy, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hubbell, Lorenzo, -1942.
- Navajo blankets--History.
- Navajo blankets.
- Navajo blankets--Marketing.
- Navajo textile fabrics--Collectors and collecting.
- Navajo textile fabrics.
- Navajo weavers--Interviews.
- Navajo weavers.
- Art as an investment--United States.
- Art as an investment.
- Hubbell, Lorenzo, -1942--Archives.
- Hubbell, Lorenzo.
- Marketing.
- History.
- Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site (Ganado, Ariz.)--History--Sources.
- Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site (Ganado, Ariz.).
- United States.
- Genre:
- Archives.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Debunks the romanticist stereotyping of Navajo weavers and Reservation traders and situates weavers within the economic history of the southwest.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Trade, commerce, and diversification
- Discourses on traders, weavers, and trade blankets
- Blankets by weight: the hidden narrative
- Blankets by design: assessing traders' influence
- From flea market to Fifth Avenue: tracking the investment market
- Toward an understanding of Navajo aesthetics
- Reconceptualizing Navajo weaving: from commodity to cosmological performance.
- Notes:
- "Published in cooperation with the University of Arizona Southwest Center."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826328318
- OCLC:
- 50042571
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