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Author:   Joanne B. Eicher (The University of Minnesota, USA) ,  Joanne B. Eicher (The University of Minnesota, USA) ,  Margot Blum Schevill ,  Margot Blum Schevill
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Weight:   1.603kg
ISBN:  

9781847883919

ISBN 10:   1847883915
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   01 October 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Encyclopedia Preface Preface to Latin America and the Caribbean PART 1: Overview of Dress and Fashion in Latin America and the Caribbean Introductory Note to Latin America and the Caribbean, Margot Blum Schevill Regional Dress of Latin America in a European Context, Patricia Rieff Anawalt Film and Fashion, Alba F. Aragón PART 2: Mexico Overview of Mexico, Chloë Sayer Ancient Maya, Matthew Looper Mixtec Dress, Robert Lloyd Williams Mixtec Hairstyles, Holly Parker Mexican Headwear, Beverly Chico The China Poblana, Virginia Davis Used Clothing, Mélissa Gauthier Maya Dress and Fashion in Chiapas, Ashley E. Maynard and Patricia Marks Greenfield SNAPSHOT: A Self-Directed Huipil Weaver Zinacantán Indigenous Fashion, Yosi Anaya SNAPSHOT: Depicting Indigenousness Zapotec Clothing in Oaxaca, Grace Johnson Mazahua Dress, Pamela Scheinman The Yucatán, Yolanda Garfi as Woo Contemporary Veracruz Textiles, Yosi Anaya Folklore Influences in Mexico and Panama, Tasha Lewis Sna Jolobil: A Textile Cooperative, Kathryn Klein SNAPSHOT: Interview with Cofounder of Sna Jolobil, Walter F. Morris Jr. SNAPSHOT: Interview with Sna Jolobil Associate, Juan Giron López Dress in Mexican Cinema, Isabel Arredondo PART 3: Central America Overview of Central America, José Blanco F. Belize, Yolanda Garfias Woo Maya Dress and Fashion in Guatemala, Barbara Knoke de Arathoon and Rosario Miralbés de Polanco Southern Maya Dress of Southwestern Guatemala, Matthew Looper SNAPSHOT: Modern Maya Children's Dress, Traci Ardren The Maya of Tecpán, Guatemala, Carol Hendrickson Clothing and Identities in the Eyes of Women Comalapan Painters of Guatemala, Linda Asturias de Barrios Spanish Infl uences in Maya Clothing of Guatemala, Olga Arriola de Geng The Huipil of Guatemala, J. Claire Odland Morrales in Guatemala, Kathryn Rousso Women's Hair Sashes of Mesoamerica, Carol Ventura Dress of Eastern Guatemala, Kathryn Rousso SNAPSHOT: Maya Traditions: A Weaving Cooperative, Jane Mintz The Mola Blouses of the Kuna from Panama, Teena Jennings-Rentenaar National Dress of Panama: La Pollera, Laurie Harris and Tasha Lewis Central American Headwear, Beverly Chico PART 4: The Caribbean Overview of the Caribbean, Steeve O. Buckridge Vodou Ritual Garments in Haiti, Susan Elizabeth Tselos Creolized Costumes for Rara, Haiti, Susan Elizabeth Tselos Jamaica in the Nineteenth Century to the Present, Steeve O. Buckridge Dress and Dance in Puerto Rico, Raúl J. Vázquez López Trinidad in the Nineteenth Century, Dominique Heyse-Moore Cuba, Araceli Tinajero Caribbean Headwear, Beverly Chico PART 5: South America Overview of South America, Lynn A. Meisch SNAPSHOT: Metallurgy History of Dress in Venezuela, Cecilia Rodríguez Lenmann Pre-Hispanic Dress in Colombia and Ecuador, Karen Olsen Bruhns National Brand of Colombia, Daniel Salazar Angarita Contemporary Ecuador, Lynn A. Meisch The Shuar and Achuar of Ecuador and Peru, Nancy B. Rosoff Pre-Hispanic Northern Peru, Amy Oakland The Nasca on the South Coast of Peru, Mary Frame Southern Highland Peru, Andrea M. Heckman Choquecancha, Peru, Katharine E. Seibold SNAPSHOT: The Center for Traditional Textiles of Cuzco, Peru, Nilda Callañaupa and Timothy Wells Textile Arts of Taquile Island, Peru, Elayne Zorn SNAPSHOT: The Peruvian Connection: A Retail Company, Victoria Z. Rivers Ancient Attire of the Southern Andes, Amy Oakland SNAPSHOT: Aymara Women's Dress of La Paz, Bolivia, Lynn A. Meisch Cloth of the Sakaka of Bolivia, Elayne Zorn SNAPSHOT: Evo Morales and the Politics of Dress in Bolivia, Elayne Zorn Nineteenth-Century Afro-Brazilian Women's Dress, Kelly Mohs Gage Cloth and African Identity in Bahia, Brazil, Deborah Valoma Dress, Body, and Culture in Brazil, Rita Andrade and Regina A. Root History of Dress in the Southern Cone, Carol García, Eva Medalla, Laura Novik, and Regina A. Root Dress and Fashion in Argentina, Laura Novik and Regina A. Root Textile Arts of the Mapuche of Chile, Grace Johnson Military Fashion and Coup d'Etat in Chile, Carmen Oquendo-Villar Textile Art Production in Paraguay, Christina Turner SNAPSHOT: Manos de Uruguay: A Cooperative Umbrella, Lynn A. Meisch SNAPSHOT: Raíz Diseño-A Nongovernmental Organization, Regina A. Root South American Headwear, Beverly Chico Index

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EDITOR: Margot Blum Schevill is a textile and folk art consultant, and author or co-author of a wide range of books including Maya Textiles of Guatemala and The Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes. CONSULTING EDITORS: Blenda Femenías is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University. She is the author of Gender and the Boundaries of Dress in Contemporary Peru. Lynn A. Meisch is Chair of the Anthropology Department at Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga.

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