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Cloth and human experience

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Annette B. Weiner, Jane C. Schneider
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Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989 - Design - 431 pages

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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
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

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
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
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About the author (1989)

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.

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