Between the Folds : : Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba / / Jill Forshee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Forshee, Jill,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface: Entering the Field --; Acknowledgments --; Part One: Fabricscapes --; Chapter 1: Introduction --; Chapter 2: Locations, Histories, Identities --; Chapter 3: Enfolding History and Flux --; Part Two: Between the Folds --; Chapter 4: Wandi --; Chapter 5: Parai Mutu --; Chapter 6: Hawewa --; Part Three: Shuttling between Worlds --; Chapter 7: Worlds Converge --; Chapter 8: Village Encounters --; Chapter 9: On Other Islands --; Chapter 10: Unfolding Passages --; Chapter 11: Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824861636; 9783110564143; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824861636
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jill Forshee.

Textiles have long been integral to the social life and cosmology of the people of East Sumba, Indonesia. In recent decades, Sumbanese have entered a larger world economy as their textiles have joined the commodity flow of an international "ethnic arts" market stimulated by Indonesia's tourist trade. Through the individual stories of those involved in the contemporary production and trade of local cloth-including animists, Christians, and Moslems; Sumbanese, Indonesian Chinese, and Westerners; inventive geniuses, master artisans, and exploited weavers; rogues, entrepeneurs, nobles, and servants-a vivid account emerges of the inner workings of a so-called "traditional" society and its arts responding inventively to decades of international collecting.