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Book Synopsis Silent Looms by : Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
Download or read book Silent Looms written by Tracy Bachrach Ehlers and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on new fieldwork in 1997, Tracy Bachrach Ehlers has updated her classic study of the effects of economic development on the women weavers of San Pedro Sacatepéquez. Revisiting many of the women she interviewed in the 1970s and 1980s and revising her earlier hopeful assessment of women's entrepreneurial opportunities, Ehlers convincingly demonstrates that development and commercial growth in the region have benefited men at the expense of women.
Book Synopsis Silent Looms by : Tracy Bachrach Ehlers
Download or read book Silent Looms written by Tracy Bachrach Ehlers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In her book, Silent Looms: Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town, Tracy Bachrach Ehlers captures the paradox of gender relations in a society that accords power and authority to men yet leaves the major burden of child care and economic maintenance of the family to women. Most monographs on Maya populations have either ignored women's contributions to the indigenous economy or, when they have included women's work, have ignored the contradiction between patriarchal ideology and observed behavior that is increasingly sharpened by the political and economic transformations taking place. "
Download or read book Weaving the Past written by Susan Kellogg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving the Past offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary history of Latin America's indigenous women. While the book concentrates on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it covers indigenous people in other parts of South and Central America, including lowland peoples in and beyond Brazil, and Afro-indigenous peoples, such as the Garifuna, of Central America. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, it argues that change, not continuity, has been the norm for indigenous peoples whose resilience in the face of complex and long-term patterns of cultural change is due in no small part to the roles, actions, and agency of women. The book provides broad coverage of gender roles in native Latin America over many centuries, drawing upon a range of evidence from archaeology, anthropology, religion, and politics. Primary and secondary sources include chronicles, codices, newspaper articles, and monographic work on specific regions. Arguing that Latin America's indigenous women were the critical force behind the more important events and processes of Latin America's history, Kellogg interweaves the region's history of family, sexual, and labor history with the origins of women's power in prehispanic, colonial, and modern South and Central America. Shying away from interpretations that treat women as house bound and passive, the book instead emphasizes women's long history of performing labor, being politically active, and contributing to, even supporting, family and community well-being.
Book Synopsis Weaving Identities by : Carol Hendrickson
Download or read book Weaving Identities written by Carol Hendrickson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Craft, Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics, 19th-20th Century by : Dr Beverly Lemire
Download or read book Craft, Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics, 19th-20th Century written by Dr Beverly Lemire and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With object study at the core, this book brings together a collection of essays that address the past and present of craft production, its use and meaning within a range of community settings from the Huron Wendat of colonial Quebec to the Girls’ Friendly Society of twentieth-century England. The making of handcrafted objects has and continues to flourish despite the powerful juggernaut of global industrialization. By attending to the political histories of craft objects and their makers, over the last few centuries, these essays reveal the creative persistence of various hand mediums and the material debates they represented.
Download or read book Consular Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Consular Reports by : United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce
Download or read book Consular Reports written by United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reports from the Consuls of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reports from the Consuls of the United States (varies Slightly) by : United States. Bureau of Manufactures
Download or read book Reports from the Consuls of the United States (varies Slightly) written by United States. Bureau of Manufactures and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Epic Succession and Dissension by : Sophia Papaioannou
Download or read book Epic Succession and Dissension written by Sophia Papaioannou and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study constitutes the first modern book-length, in-depth critical analysis of Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.623–14.582. In this unit Ovid, by challenging openly the artistry of his great predecessor Vergil, redraws the parameters associated with the definition and appreciation of epic poetry. The book first introduces the methodological complexity of the Ovidian embrace strategy, and, subsequently, it reads the ‘little Aeneid’ closely, discussing the network of allusions to its prototype. It assesses the structure and thematics of each episode in the cluster, and traces the recurrence of prominent motifs throughout the Metamorphoses. Not least, it explores poetics, arguing that Ovid’s selective incorporation of the Aeneid reproduces the spirit and fundamental ideas of the model in an idiosyncratic sophisticated manner.
Download or read book Poems written by Maud Egerton Hine and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Textile Colorist and Converter written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Textile Colorist written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Maya written by Liliana R. Goldín and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the central highland Maya communities of Guatemala, the demands of the global economy have become a way of life. This book explores how rural peoples experience economic and cultural change as their country joins the global market, focusing on their thoughts about work and sustenance as a way of learning about Guatemala’s changing economy. For more than a decade, Liliana Goldín observed in highland towns both the intensification of various forms of production and their growing links to wider markets. In this first book to compare economic ideology across a range of production systems, she examines how people make a living and how they think about their options, practices, and constraints. Drawing on interviews and surveys—even retellings of traditional narratives—she reveals how contemporary Maya respond to the increasingly globalized yet locally circumscribed conditions in which they work. Goldín presents four case studies: cottage industries devoted to garment production, vegetable growing for internal and border markets reached through direct commerce, crops grown for export, and wage labor in garment assembly factories. By comparing generational and gendered differences among workers, she reveals not only complexities of change but also how these complexities arereflected in changing attitudes, understandings, and aspirations that characterize people’s economic ideology. Further, she shows that as rural people take on diverse economic activities, they also reinterpret their views on such matters as accumulation, cooperation, competition, division of labor, and community solidarity. Global Maya explores global processes in local terms, revealing the interplay of traditional values, household economics, and the inescapable conditions of demographic growth, a shrinking land base, and a global economy always looking for cheap labor. It offers a wealth of new insights not only for Maya scholars but also for anyone concerned with the effects of globalization on the Third World.
Book Synopsis Love for an Hour is Love Forever by : Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Download or read book Love for an Hour is Love Forever written by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Methodist Magazine (London, England : 1798) written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
