Weaving a future : tourism, cloth, & culture on an Andean island / Elayne Zorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zorn, Elayne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quechua textile fabrics--Peru--Taquili.

Quechua textile fabrics.

Quechua business enterprises--Peru--Taquili.

Quechua business enterprises.

Quechua Indians--Clothing--Peru--Taquili.

Quechua Indians.

Hand weaving--Peru--Taquili.

Hand weaving.

Textile design--Peru--Taquili.

Textile design.

Taquili (Peru)--Social life and customs.

Taquili (Peru).

Taquili (Peru)--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation of th

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture; 2. Taquile Island in Lake Titicaca; 3. The Cloth of Contemporary Incas; 4. Transforming Value by Commoditizing Cloth; 5. Visit Taquile-Isle of Peace and Enchantment; 6. Conclusion: Weaving a Future?; Afterword: Traveling to Taquile; Notes; Glossary; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-214) and index.

ISBN:

9781609380342

1609380347

9781587295225

1587295229

OCLC:

773567051