Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba
By Jill Forshee.
Description
Textiles have long been integral to the social life and cosmology of the people of East Sumba, Indonesia. In recent decades, the villagers 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. As the people of Sumba respond to an immensely expanded commerce in their cloth, tensions and ironies emerge between history and innovation in both cloth and lives. Using a narrative approach, Jill Forshee reveals "the human stuff that cloths enfold". She takes rea...
ISBN(s)
082482346X, 9780824823467
