Description
In this volume, anthropologists, art historians, fiber artists, and technologists come in combination to explore the meanings, uses, and fabrication of textiles in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from Precolumbian times to the current. Firstly revealed in 1991 by Garland Publishing, the book grew out of a 1987 symposium held together with the show off “Costume as Communication: Ethnographic Costumes and Textiles from Heart The usa and the Central Andes of South The usa” on the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown College.