{"product_id":"cloth-and-human-experience-isbn-9780874749953","title":"Cloth and Human Experience","description":"\u003ci\u003eCloth and Human Experience\u003c\/i\u003e explores a wide variety of cultures and eras, discussing production and trade, economics, and symbolic and spiritual associations.“A book with an overwhelming scope . . . The editors march us across six continents, several archipelagos and a few oceans, and through a wide variety of times and political systems, all the while pondering cloth. And the variation among the essays in this volume, by art historians, historians, and anthropologists, is striking. . . . The editors point out that cloth is a metaphor for the connectedness of society and that it has always been politically, socially, and cosmologically important.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The 13 essays in this volume . . .explore the social and political significance of cloth in small-scale and industrial societies. The book has both a materialist and a symbolic focus: the contributors discuss cloth's production and trade as well as its value as a sacred and revered heirloom. There are chapters on indigo dyeing and its relation to gender symbolism in Indonesia, cloth and its function in the Inka state in Peru, folklore and linen manufacturing in early modern Europe, and the role of fabric in the struggle for independence in India, to name just a few.”—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Craft\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnette B. Weiner\u003c\/b\u003e holds the Kriser Distinguished Professorship in Anthropology and is chair of the Department of Anthropology at New York University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWomen of Value, Men of Renown: New Perspectives on Trobriand Exchange\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eJane Schneider\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is currently the executive officer of the Ph.D. program in anthropology. She is coauthor of \u003ci\u003eCulture and Political Economy in Western Sicily\u003c\/i\u003e.Explores a wide variety of cultures and eras, discussing production, trade, economics, and symbolic and spiritual associations of cloth.","brand":"Smithsonian Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44863483805925,"sku":"NP9780874749953","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780874749953.jpg?v=1767723853","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/cloth-and-human-experience-isbn-9780874749953","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}