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Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry (And Government; 5)

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On this innovative study, Sarah Hill illuminates the history of Southeastern Cherokee women by examining changes in their basketry. Based in tradition and made out of in the community gathered materials, baskets evoke the lives and landscapes in their makers. Indeed, as Weaving New Worlds reveals, the stories of Cherokee baskets and the women who weave them are intertwined and inseparable. Incorporating written, woven, and spoken records, Hill demonstrates that changes in Cherokee basketry signal necessary transformations in Cherokee culture. Over the course of three centuries, Cherokees developed four major basketry traditions, every according to a different material–rivercane, white oak, honeysuckle, and maple. Hill explores how the addition of every new material occurred within the context of lived experience, ecological processes, social conditions, economic circumstances, and historical eras. Incorporating insights from written sources, interviews with up to date Cherokee weavers, and a close examination of the baskets themselves, she presents Cherokee women as shapers and subjects of change. Even within the face of cultural assault and environmental loss, she argues, Cherokee women have continued to take what they have got to make what they need, literally and metaphorically weaving new worlds from old.

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