Download or read book Textiles in Rural Bolivia written by Kathryn Elizabeth Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis investigated the role of traditional textiles within the Bolivian culture in the early twenty-first century. Creating traditional textiles is an important aspect of Bolivian life. Women are able to spin, dye, and weave to create a textile. These textiles can be sold and have been an assurance that women would always be able to make money. An ethnographic study was conducted in Independencia, Bolivia, in order to observe and research the steps in the making of a textile within the context of the culture. The steps included shearing the sheep, cleaning the fleece, spinning the fleece on a drop spindle, dyeing the yarn with natural dyes, weaving the yarn, and sewing the woven fabric into an end product. These labor-intensive steps were learned by initially observing and then actively participating. Since February, 2010, there have been quite a few changes due to outside influences. These changes mean that textile traditions are not being passed down. Today the mothers are not teaching their daughters these steps because the daughters are away at school. Within the community, the traditional dynamic has been altered. Men are forced to travel for work; the children are away at school; and the women are in the home juggling many roles, including maintaining the home, taking care of the animals, and weaving in order to acquire physical money to pay for school supplies.
Download or read book Bolivian Indian Textiles written by Tamara E. Wasserman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Andean Aesthetics written by Blenda Femenias and published by University of Wisconsin-Madison, Elvejhem Museum of Art. This book was released on 1987 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers 1650 2000 written by Els Hiemstra-Kuperus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive collection offers the first systematic global and comparative history of textile workers over the course of 350 years. This period covers the major changes in wool and cotton production, and the global picture from pre-industrial times through to the twentieth century. After an introduction, the first part of the book is divided into twenty national studies on textile production over the period 1650-2000. To make them useful tools for international comparisons, each national overview is based on a consistent framework that defines the topics and issues to be treated in each chapter. The countries described have been selected to included the major historic producers of woollen and cotton fabrics, and the diversity of global experience, and include not only European nations, but also Argentina, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, Uruguay and the USA. The second part of the book consists of ten comparative papers on topics including globalization and trade, organization of production, space, identity, workplace, institutions, production relations, gender, ethnicity and the textile firm. These are based on the national overviews and additional literature, and will help apply current interdisciplinary and cultural concerns to a subject traditionally viewed largely through a social and economic history lens. Whilst offering a unique reference source for anyone interested in the history of a particular country's textile industry, the true strength of this project lies in its capacity of international comparison. By providing global comparative studies of key textile industries and workers, both geographically and thematically, this book provides a comprehensive and contemporary analysis of a major element of the world's economy. This allows historians to challenge many of the received ideas about globalization, for instance, highlighting how global competition for lower production costs is by no means a uniquely modern issue, and has b
Download or read book Bolivia written by Marcela López Levy and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding series provides concise and lively introductions to countries such as Bolivia and the major development issues they face. Packed full of factual information, photographs and maps, the guides also focus on ordinary people and the impact that historical, economic and environmental issues have on their lives.
Download or read book Weaving a Future written by Elayne Zorn and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation of the isolated rock.
Download or read book Textiles of Central and South America written by Angela Thompson and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2006 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich textile traditions of Central and South America date back to pre-Hispanic Conquest times. This fascinating book looks at both the differences and the similarities between the weaving and textile techniques and traditions of the various Latin American countries, and explores the symbolic meanings of the designs woven into or imprinted onto the cloth. Topics covered include: · Design and production, including the different types of loom and weaving techniques and the various spinning and dyeing methods. · Fibres and threads, yarns and fabric sources. · Manipulated thread crafts, including knitting and crochet, plaiting, knotting and netting, and the Spanish Sol needle-laces. · Embroidery, both hand and machine, as well as the chain-stitch embroidery worked in Peru, the politically inspired embroidery of Arpilleras, and the appliqué pictures of Chile, Peru and Guatemala. · Beadwork, both embroidered and strung. · Finishing, decorative edging and fringing. AUTHOR: For the last twenty years Angela Thompson has travelled the world in search of textiles to add to her collection. Angela has lectured on and tutored a variety of textile subjects in the UK, USA and Australia. She has written numerous articles for embroidery and textile magazines and published a series of textile related books including The Embroiderers' and Quilters' Source Book [2005]. She is a member of the Textile Society, The Spinners & Weavers Guild, The Embroiderers' Guild and The Lace Guild. 200 colour photos
Download or read book Interwoven written by Rachel Corr and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of how ordinary Andean men and women maintained their family and community lives in the shadow of Colonial Ecuador's leading textile mill"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Textiles in the Bolivian Andes written by Waldo Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1996* with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bolivia written by David Atkinson and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of South America's most stunning spectacles, the great Salar de Uvuni salt lake, is here as well as Lake Titicaca. Bolivia retains its pre-Columbian traditions more than any other country in South America, with agricultural practices unchanged since the Incas, and traditional festivals and markets. It also has modern nightclubs, comfortable hotels and ecolodges, and is the ideal place to soak up some Latin American culture before the onset of mass tourism.
Download or read book Mining and Manufacturing Industries in Bolivia written by United States Tariff Commission and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes written by Margot Blum Schevill and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, anthropologists, art historians, fiber artists, and technologists come together to explore the meanings, uses, and fabrication of textiles in Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from Precolumbian times to the present. Originally published in 1991 by Garland Publishing, the book grew out of a 1987 symposium held in conjunction with the exhibit "Costume as Communication: Ethnographic Costumes and Textiles from Middle America and the Central Andes of South America" at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University.
Download or read book Department of Housing and Urban Development and Certain Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1981 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bolivian Highland Weaving written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weaving Traditions of Highland Bolivia written by Laurie Adelson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cash Clothes and Construction written by Kate Maclean and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking feminist perspective on Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) rule in Bolivia and the country’s radical transformation under Evo Morales The presidency of Evo Morales in Bolivia (2006–2019) has produced considerable academic scholarship, much of it focused on indigenous social movements or extractivism, and often triumphalist about the successes of Morales’s Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS). Turning a new lens on the movement, Cash, Clothes, and Construction presents the first gender-based analysis of “pluri-economy,” a central pillar of Bolivia’s program under Morales, evaluating the potential of this vision of “an economy where all economies fit” to embrace feminist critiques of capitalism and economic diversity. Based on more than twelve years of empirical research exploring the remarkable transformations in Bolivia since 2006, this book focuses on three sectors—finance, clothing, and construction—in which indigenous women have defied gendered expectations. Kate Maclean presents detailed case studies of women selling secondhand high street clothes from the United States in the vast, peri-urban markets of Bolivian cities; Aymaran designers of new pollera (traditional Andean dress) fashions, one of whom exhibited her collection in New York City; and the powerful and rich chola paceña, whose real estate investments have transformed the cultural maps of La Paz and El Alto. Cash, Clothes, and Construction offers a gendered analysis of the mission of MAS to dismantle neoliberalism and decolonize politics and economy from the perspective of the Indigenous women who have radically transformed Bolivia’s economy from the ground up.
Download or read book Coca Cocaine and the Bolivian Reality written by Madeline Barbara L?ons and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-10-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edited volume of contributions from Bolivian, American, and British political scientists, development sociologists, anthropologists, and historians examines impacts of the coca/cocaine economy on Bolivian society and politics, and on the US, in recent years. Together these works constitute the most complete, updated collection of analyses about this controversial public policy issue affecting US/Bolivian relations"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
