Evolution In Textile Design From The Highlands Of Guatemala
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Evolution In Textile Design From The Highlands Of Guatemala
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Author : Margot Blum Schevill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Evolution In Textile Design From The Highlands Of Guatemala written by Margot Blum Schevill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.
Evolution In Textile Design From The Highlands Of Guatemala
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Author : Margot Blum Schevill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986-01-01
Evolution In Textile Design From The Highlands Of Guatemala written by Margot Blum Schevill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-01 with categories.
Evolution In Textile Design From The Highlands Of Guatemala
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Author : Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology
language : en
Publisher: 85 0936127015 -[
Release Date : 1985
Evolution In Textile Design From The Highlands Of Guatemala written by Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology and has been published by 85 0936127015 -[ this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Design categories.
2000 Years Of Mayan Literature
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Author : Dennis Tedlock
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2011-11-04
2000 Years Of Mayan Literature written by Dennis Tedlock and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-04 with History categories.
A chronological survey of Mayan literature, covering two thousand years, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to later works using the Roman alphabet.
Textile Traditions Of Mesoamerica And The Andes
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Author : Margot Blum Schevill
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-07-05
Textile Traditions Of Mesoamerica And The Andes written by Margot Blum Schevill and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-05 with Art categories.
In this volume, anthropologists, art historians, fiber artists, and technologists come together to explore the meanings, uses, and fabrication of textiles in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from Precolumbian times to the present. Originally published in 1991 by Garland Publishing, the book grew out of a 1987 symposium held in conjunction with the exhibit "Costume as Communication: Ethnographic Costumes and Textiles from Middle America and the Central Andes of South America" at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University.
Weaving Identities
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Author : Carol Hendrickson
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Weaving Identities written by Carol Hendrickson and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Traje, the brightly colored traditional dress of the highland Maya, is the principal visual expression of indigenous identity in Guatemala today. Whether worn in beauty pageants, made for religious celebrations, or sold in tourist markets, traje is more than "mere cloth"—it plays an active role in the construction and expression of ethnicity, gender, education, politics, wealth, and nationality for Maya and non-Maya alike. Carol Hendrickson presents an ethnography of clothing focused on the traje—particularly women's traje—of Tecpán, Guatemala, a bi-ethnic community in the central highlands. She covers the period from 1980, when the recent round of violence began, to the early 1990s, when Maya revitalization efforts emerged. Using a symbolic analysis informed by political concerns, Hendrickson seeks to increase the value accorded to a subject like weaving, which is sometimes disparaged as "craft" or "women's work." She examines traje in three dimensions—as part of the enduring images of the "Indian," as an indicator of change in the human life cycle and cloth production, and as a medium for innovation and creative expression. From this study emerges a picture of highland life in which traje and the people who wear it are bound to tradition and place, yet are also actively changing and reflecting the wider world. The book will be important reading for all those interested in the contemporary Maya, the cultural analysis of material culture, and the role of women in culture preservation and change.
Maya Textiles Of Guatemala
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Author : Margot Blum Schevill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-12
Maya Textiles Of Guatemala written by Margot Blum Schevill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-12 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Informative and beautifully illustrated.... It is both a detailed anthropological study, which delves into aspects of Mayan culture and examines historical and sociological forces brought to bear on Mayan communities of Guatemala, and a catalog of the stunning collections, containing descriptions of techniques, dying processes, and textile production. -- Booklist
Guatemalan Textiles In The British Museum
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Author : Ann Hecht
language : en
Publisher: British Museum Press
Release Date : 2001
Guatemalan Textiles In The British Museum written by Ann Hecht and has been published by British Museum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
A catalogue of textiles from the highlands of Guatemala in the Ethnographic Department of The British Museum. This important collection of over 800 items has not previously been the subject of systematic study. The material is arranged geographically and representative items from each group are described.
Weaving A Future
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Author : Elayne Zorn
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2004-11-01
Weaving A Future written by Elayne Zorn and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-01 with History categories.
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 the isolated rocky island into a community-controlled enterprise that now provides a model for indigenous communities worldwide. Over the course of three decades and nearly two years living on Taquile Island, Zorn, who is trained in both the arts and anthropology, learned to weave from Taquilean women. She also learned how gender structures both the traditional lifestyles and the changes that tourism and transnationalism have brought. In her comprehensive and accessible study, she reveals how Taquileans used their isolation, landownership, and communal organizations to negotiate the pitfalls of globalization and modernization and even to benefit from tourism. This multi-sited ethnography set in Peru, Washington, D.C., and New York City shows why and how cloth remains central to Andean society and how the marketing of textiles provided the experience and money for Taquilean initiatives in controlling tourism. The first book about tourism in South America that centers on traditional arts as well as community control, Weaving a Future will be of great interest to anthropologists and scholars and practitioners of tourism, grassroots development, and the fiber arts.
Images From The Underworld
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Author : Andrea J. Stone
language : en
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
Release Date : 2010-07-05
Images From The Underworld written by Andrea J. Stone and has been published by Univ of TX + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-05 with Social Science categories.
An in-depth look at Maya cave painting from Preconquest times to the Colonial period, plus a complete visual catalog of the cave art of Naj Tunich. In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, Guatemala. One of the world’s few deep caves that contain rock art, Naj Tunich features figural images and hieroglyphic inscriptions that have helped to revolutionize our understanding of ancient Maya art and ritual. In this book, Andrea Stone takes a comprehensive look at Maya cave painting from Preconquest times to the Colonial period. After surveying Mesoamerican cave and rock painting sites and discussing all twenty-five known painted caves in the Maya area, she focuses extensively on Naj Tunich. Her text analyzes the images and inscriptions, while photographs and line drawings provide a complete visual catalog of the cave art, some of which has been subsequently destroyed by vandals. This important new body of images and texts enlarges our understanding of the Maya view of sacred landscape and the role of caves in ritual. It will be important reading for all students of the Maya, as well as for others interested in cave art and in human relationships with the natural environment. “Not only an extraordinarily detailed and insightful analysis of the painted representations and texts found in Naj Tunich but also a complete survey of all known Maya painted caves. . . . A major monograph on a major Maya site. For completeness of presentation, for clarity of writing, and for depth and scope of analysis, [Images from the Underworld] is a model of what a final report should be.” —Journal of Anthropological Research