Weaving identities : construction of dress and self in a highland Guatemala town

Weaving identities : construction of dress and self in a highland Guatemala town /

"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&q...

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Author / Contributor: Hendrickson, Carol Elaine, 1949-
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1995.
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Cakchikel Indians > Clothing.
Cakchikel textile fabrics > Guatemala > Tecpán Guatemala.
Costume > Symbolic aspects > Guatemala > Tecpán Guatemala.
Costume > Social aspects > Guatemala > Tecpán Guatemala.
Tecpán Guatemala (Guatemala) > Social life and customs.
Trabajadores textiles > Tecpán, Guatemala.
Vestido > Tecpán, Guatemala > Simbología.
Vestido > Aspectos sociales > Tecpán, Guatemala.
Tecpán, Guatemala > Vida social y costumbres.
Kleding.
Culturele identiteit.
Cakchiqueles.
Cakchiquel (Indiens) > Costumes.
Costume > Guatemala > Tecpán.
Textiles et tissus Cakchiquel > Guatemala > Tecpán.
Tecpán (Guatemala) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Acquisition Notes:Gift of Theodore T. Newbold
Table of Contents:
  • 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"

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