Between the folds : stories of cloth, lives, and travels from Sumba / Jill Forshee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forshee, Jill.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sumbanese (Indonesian people)--Commerce.

Sumbanese (Indonesian people).

Sumbanese (Indonesian people)--Costume.

Sumbanese (Indonesian people)--Industries.

Textile design--Indonesia--Sumba Island.

Textile design.

Textile fabrics, Sumbanese.

Textile industry--Indonesia--Sumba Island.

Textile industry.

Sumba Island (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.

Sumba Island (Indonesia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Honolulu] : University of Hawai'i Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: Entering the Field

Acknowledgments

Part One: Fabricscapes

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Locations, Histories, Identities

Chapter 3: Enfolding History and Flux

Part Two: Between the Folds

Chapter 4: Wandi

Chapter 5: Parai Mutu

Chapter 6: Hawewa

Part Three: Shuttling between Worlds

Chapter 7: Worlds Converge

Chapter 8: Village Encounters

Chapter 9: On Other Islands

Chapter 10: Unfolding Passages

Chapter 11: Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-258) and index.

ISBN:

9780824861636

0824861639

9780585482231

0585482233

OCLC:

49730943