... Land reorganization project Ōta Chōfu Jahana Noboru Female weavers Reform of Old Customs Movement ...

... This chapter examines the tensions that emerged in the late nineteenth century between the first generation of Okinawa’s intellectuals and female weavers soon after the Miyako island peasantry. It focuses on the conflicts that took place between local advocates of the movement to reform old...

... homelands and in the everyday hands and lifeworlds of NPY female artists. Tjanpi demonstrates how important ways of doing and being are to practice-based, life-making aesthetics. The haptic viscera of country, of women’s life work, is itself woven into the object form, making the work of Tjanpi exemplary...

... the highly traveled homelands and in the everyday hands and lifeworlds of NPY female artists. Tjanpi demonstrates how important ways of doing and being are to practice-based, life-making aesthetics. The haptic viscera of country, of women’s life work, is itself woven into the object form, making the work...