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Fills a void by examining the politics of heritage from a geographic and postcolonial perspective, skillfully weaving materiality, ideology, and history together in a critique of nationalism during the republican and revolutionary periods. . . . Conceptually cohesive and rich in detail. --Choice

""Concisely and cohesively covers over a millennium of history and archaeology regarding textiles and the practice of weaving in the North Atlantic. . . . One does not need to be a textile expert to use and enjoy this highly informative work. . . . An excellent resource.""--Anthropology Book Forum ""Several key insights are spun. . . . The reader is obliged to reconsider past interpretations of North Atlantic evidence in this new light.""--Antiquity ""[An] ambitious and welcome study. . . . The Valkyries' Loom makes important contributions to our understanding of the medieval and early modern North Atlantic as well as to the ways textile studies can enrich our knowledge of the pre-modern world.""--Medieval Review

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Michèle Hayeur Smith is research associate at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University.

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