Cloth and human experience

Annette B. Weiner, Jane C. Schneider

Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989 - Design - 431 pages

Contents

• CHAPTER: 1
• Capitalism and the Meanings of Cloth: 10
• CHAPTER: 12
• Cloth in LargeScale Societies: 16
• Conclusion: 25
• PARTI: 31
• The Trobriand Solution: 37
• Cloth and Womens Production: 45
• Cloth and Its Inalienable Properties: 52
• Why Cloth?: 61
• The Sakalava: 75
• Spirit Possession: 86
• Substantiating Identity and Concealing Falsity: 94
• Wrapping Ancestors and Claiming Power: 102
• CHAPTER 4: 117
• The Dynamics of Textile Fabrication: 123
• Raffia Textile Display at Funerals: 130
• Why the Dead Wear Decorated Raffia Textiles: 137
• Patrilineages Matriclans and the Secrets of Indigo: 145
• Cloth Production and the Production of Children: 151
• The Exchange of Cloth and the Exchange of Women: 158
• PART II: 165
• CHAPTER 6: 177
• Linen Promotion and the Mobilization of Labor: 187
• Flax Fairies and the Demonization of Spirits: 197
• Promoters Peasants and Rumpelstiltskins: 207
• CHAPTER 7: 215
• Female Handwork as an Erotic Metaphor: 221
• Spinning Rooms and WomenonTop: 229
• CHAPTER 8: 237
• The Origins of Embroidering in San Antonino: 246
• Costs and Returns: 252
• Cloth in LargeScale Societies: 273
• Peasant Uses of Cloth: 279
• Textiles at Court and in the Army: 285
• The Power of Cloth in Exchange: 291
• Turbans of Identity: 304
• Clothes and the Constitution of Authority: 312
• Orientalizing India: 321
• The Gaekwar and the King: 328
• The Uniform of the Indian National Congress: 338
• Turbans and Shoes: 345
• CHAPTER 11: 355
• The Mahatma as Semiotician: 365
• LOUISE ALLISON CORT: 377
• Harmonizing of Opposing Elements in Sacred Cloth: 383
• From Luxury Fabric to Wallpaper: 391
• Change and Survival: 406
• Glossary of Japanese Written Forms: 415

About the author

Annette B. Weiner is Kriser Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University. She currently serves as President of the American Anthropological Association.

Jane Schneider is a Professor of Anthropology, at the Graduate and University Center, City University of New York.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Cloth and human experience; Etnographic series in ethnographic inquiry; Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry
• Editors: Annette B. Weiner, Jane C. Schneider
• Contributor: Annette B. Weiner
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989
• Original from: Indiana University
• Digitized: Jul 3, 2009
• ISBN: 0874749867, 9780874749861
• Length: 431 pages
• Subjects: Design / Fashion; Design / Textile & Costume