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[Swept Under the Rug] exposes economic practices that have exploited Navajo weavers and the Navajo community for over a century.... Eight well-written and readable chapters treat interconnected topics ranging from trade and commerce to the investment market to Navajo aesthetics and cosmology. - Choice To her credit, [M'Closkey] includes Navajo perspectives. She successfully connects the influence of traditional Navajo concepts regarding harmony, beauty, and order to Navajo weaving.... As both a weaver and a scholar, M'Closkey has created the definitive work on the history of Navajo weaving. - The Journal of the West. For students of culture, the interaction of culture and marketplace, and artistic expression as sacred act, Kathy M'Closkey's Swept under the Rug is a thought-provoking examination of a complex and challenging subject made even more interesting because of this book. - Western Historical Quarterly

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A weaver for twenty years and a curator for more than a decade, Kathy M'Closkey is adjunct assistant professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

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