Weaving identities [electronic resource] : construction of dress and self in a highland Guatemala town / by Carol Hendrickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hendrickson, Carol Elaine, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costume--Social aspects--Guatemala--Tecpán Guatemala.

Costume.

Costume--Symbolic aspects--Guatemala--Tecpán Guatemala.

Cakchikel textile fabrics--Guatemala--Tecpán Guatemala.

Cakchikel textile fabrics.

Cakchikel Indians--Clothing.

Cakchikel Indians.

Tecpán Guatemala (Guatemala)--Social life and customs.

Tecpán Guatemala (Guatemala).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, [1995]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"An innovative ethnography of Maya traje that describes the social life of cloth, its role in the construction of identity, and its part in the changing structure of regional gender relations. Traje empowers, brings women into the global market, and is an enduring of symbol cultural knowledge"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Contents:

List of Tables, Figures, and Photographs; Acknowledgments; Note on Kaqchikel Orthography; 1. Introduction; 2. The Geography of Clothing; 3. The Enduring Indian: Images of the Maya; 4. Between Birth and Death: Traje and the Human Life Cycle; 5. The Cultural Biography of Traje; 6. Transforming the Traditional: The Creative in Traje; 7. To Wear Traje Is to Say ""We Are Maya""; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-234) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-79939-X

OCLC:

967565128