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Author: Louise Lamphere Publisher: UNM Press ISBN: 9780826342782 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 332
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Well-known anthropologist Lamphere highlights the voices of three generations of Navajo women who are weaving their traditional beliefs with modern American culture to create a new blueprint for their lives and the next generations.
Author: Louise Lamphere Publisher: UNM Press ISBN: 9780826342782 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 332
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Well-known anthropologist Lamphere highlights the voices of three generations of Navajo women who are weaving their traditional beliefs with modern American culture to create a new blueprint for their lives and the next generations.
Author: Yolanda Castro Apreza Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806160942 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 358
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In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms of governance. In 1996, some 350 women of these communities formed a weavers’ cooperative, which they called Jolom Mayaetik. Their goal was to join together to market textiles of high quality in both new and ancient designs. Weaving Chiapas offers a rare view of the daily lives, memories, and hopes of these rural Maya women as they strive to retain their ancient customs while adapting to a rapidly changing world. Originally published in Spanish in 2007, this book captures firsthand the voices of these Maya artisans, whose experiences, including the challenges of living in a highly patriarchal culture, often escape the attention of mainstream scholarship. Based on interviews conducted with members of the Jolom Mayaetik cooperative, the accounts gathered in this volume provide an intimate view of women’s life in the Chiapas highlands, known locally as Los Altos. We learn about their experiences of childhood, marriage, and childbirth; about subsistence farming and food traditions; and about the particular styles of clothing and even hairstyles that vary from community to community. Restricted by custom from engaging in public occupations, Los Altos women are responsible for managing their households and caring for domestic animals. But many of them long for broader opportunities, and the Jolom Mayaetik cooperative represents a bold effort by its members to assume control over and build a wider market for their own work. This English-language edition features color photographs—published here for the first time—depicting many of the individual women and their stunning textiles. A new preface, chapter introductions, and a scholarly afterword frame the women’s narratives and place their accounts within cultural and historical context.
Author: Barbara Teller Ornelas Publisher: Thrums Books ISBN: 9780999051757 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 0
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Navajo rugs set the gold standard for handwoven textiles in the U.S. But what about the people who create these treasures? Spider Woman's Children is the inside story, told by two women who are both deeply embedded in their own culture and considered among the very most skillful and artistic of Navajo weavers today. Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete are fifth-generation weavers who grew up at the fabled Two Grey Hills trading post. Their family and clan connections give them rare insight, as this volume takes readers into traditional hogans, remote trading posts, reservation housing neighborhoods, and urban apartments to meet weavers who follow the paths of their ancestors, who innovate with new designs and techniques, and who uphold time-honored standards of excellence. Throughout the text are beautifully depicted examples of the finest, most mindful weaving this rich tradition has to offer.
Author: Susan Schaefer Davis Publisher: Schiffer + ORM ISBN: 1507302568 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 427
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Morocco: Ancient cities, adobe fortresses of centuries past, fertile plains of wheat and olives, carpets of wildflowers, endless deserts, wild mountains, and isolated rural villages. And of course, the fabled open-air markets framed with stacks of woven rugs and other handicrafts, exotic scents wafting through the aisles, the hum of Arabic, Berber, French. Within this diverse land and confluence of cultures, many rich and ancient craft traditions carry on—women spin and weave, make buttons, embroider designs passed down through generations, and sew stunning native costumes. Women Artisans of Morocco tells the stories of twenty-five women who practice these textile traditions with an inspiring energy, pride, and fortitude. For the first time, we have a book that focuses on the artisans of Morocco themselves, those who produce these beautiful textiles that contribute substantially to their family's income while maintaining households and raising children. You will step into the lives of these Moroccan women artisans and gain an appreciation for their artistic skills and ingenuity but also for their strong roles in this supposedly male-dominated society, their fierce independence and determination as they work to improve their economic livelihoods. You will be welcomed into their homes in rural Berber villages, in bustling cities, and in a remarkable desert oasis. You will begin to learn truly what it is like to live as a woman in Morocco and to be part of a rapidly changing society. Most of the women presented here are rug weavers whose ancient skills and designs vary from region to region. You will also meet Fes embroidery artists, women who needle-weave buttons that have decorated native costumes for centuries, and a contemporary seamstress. Joe Coca's award-winning photography, guided by his curious and reverent sensibility, captures the beauty of the women, their work, and Morocco.
Author: E. M. Broner Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253203540 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
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Fifteen women from different lands and cultures share their stories and their lives as they come together in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Author: Anita Ilta Garey Publisher: Temple University Press ISBN: 9781566397001 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 266
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Emanating from a thesis, presents the outcome of interviews carried out in 1991-92 among women working in a private hospital in California. Covers the effects of night, shift and part-time work on child rearing and family life.
Author: Elizabeth Wayland Barber Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393285588 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 344
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"A fascinating history of…[a craft] that preceded and made possible civilization itself." —New York Times Book Review New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women. Despite the great toil required in making cloth and clothing, most books on ancient history and economics have no information on them. Much of this gap results from the extreme perishability of what women produced, but it seems clear that until now descriptions of prehistoric and early historic cultures have omitted virtually half the picture. Elizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated new archaeological methods—methods she herself helped to fashion. In a "brilliantly original book" (Katha Pollitt, Washington Post Book World), she argues that women were a powerful economic force in the ancient world, with their own industry: fabric.
Author: Ann Futterman Collier Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 1849058385 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 274
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Original research and examples from artists illustrate how different textile-based art approaches can provide therapeutic outlets for women with a complete variety of life experiences. The psychology of this therapeutic approach is explained as well as explanations of specific techniques and suggestions for practise with a wide range of clients.
Author: Barbara Black Koltuv Publisher: ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 144
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An invaluable title for every woman who is working towards reclaiming her own power Weaving is a process; woman is the essence of this book. Every woman will experience blood mysteries, dealing with mother, being a daughter, Amazon, Hetaerae, and integrating the shadow, if she is to mature. Share with the author, a Jungian analyst for over 25 years, the experiences you have in common with other women in the process of becoming. As Barbara Black Koltuv reveals, there is no such thing as a completed definition of woman. Women are always in the process of becoming and weaving together all the elements of their lives into their own unique patterns.
Author: Renaat Devisch Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226143620 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 364
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For the Yaka of Southwestern Zaire, infertility is a tear in the fabric of life, and the Khita fertility ritual is a trusted way of reweaving the damaged strands. In Weaving the Threads of Life Rene Devisch offers an extended analysis of the Khita cult, which leads to an original account of the workings of ritual healing. Drawing on many years among urban and rural Yaka, Devisch analyzes their understanding of existence as a fabric of firmly but delicately interwoven threads of nature, body, and society. The fertility healing ritual calls forth forces, feelings, and meanings that allow women to rejoin themselves to the complex pattern of social and cosmic life. These elaborate rites—whether simulating mortal agony and rebirth, gestation and delivery, or flowering and decay; using music and dance, steambath or massage, dream messages or scarification—are not based on symbols of traditional beliefs. Rather, Devisch shows, the rites themselves generate forces and meaning, creating and shaping the cosmic, physical, and social world of their participants. In contrast to current theoretical methods such as postmodern or symbolical interpretation, Devisch's praxiological approach is unique in also using phenomenological insights into the intent and results of anthropological fieldwork. This innovative work will have ramifications beyond African studies, reaching into the anthropology of medicine and the body, comparative religious history, and women's studies.
Author: Louise Lamphere
Author: Louise Lamphere
Author: Yolanda Castro Apreza
Author: Barbara Teller Ornelas
Author: Susan Schaefer Davis
Author: E. M. Broner
Author: Anita Ilta Garey
Author: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Author: Ann Futterman Collier
Author: Barbara Black Koltuv
Author: Renaat Devisch