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...Susan M. Socolow Weaving the Past: A History of Latin America’s Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present . By Kellogg Susan . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2005 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 338 pp. Paper...

...Susan Masuoka Guatemalan Backstrap Weaving is suggested for weavers wishing to duplicate Highland Indian textiles. For students seeking a scholarly overview of Guatemala’s rich costume tradition, however, Lila M. O’Neale’s book (available from Johnson Reprint Corporation) is a better...

... This is a delightful and eminently usable book, for it combines a pleasant style of writing with good scholarship. Mrs. Osborne has searched the Spanish documents to trace the history of the major crafts of weaving, basketry, ceramics, and even the minor ones like gourd decoration. She carefully gives native terms...

...Susan Elizabeth Ramírez Art historian Andrew James Hamilton's inspiring book reconstructs the life history of the famous Dumbarton Oaks Inca tunic or uncu (in Quechua), which he considers the pinnacle of Andean weaving traditions and Inca art and costume. Although the shirt has no provenience...

... to put contemporary costumes in temporal perspective by means of references to pre-Conquest styles (as known from sources such as the codices and figurines) and to information provided by early Spanish writers. The authors furnish us with data on weaving implements and techniques dyes, various aspects...

.... For instance he states that weaving of baskets may have been practiced (p. 57), quite missing the fact that one of the last three Pueblo weavers of coiled baskets was alive and weaving in Sia during the period of his study, and he does not mention belt weaving, still extant. White is much more interested...

... of weaving in the Chilean National Historical Museum excavated in 1912-1913 by Max Uhle from cemeteries on Punta Pichalo. Fuentes employs frequency analysis of elements in the textiles to infer the course of cultural development in the Pisagua area. He posits continuous local development strongly influenced...

.... In the great majority of contracts, the kuraka agreed to provide the labor necessary to weave raw cotton, provided by the Spaniard, into a specified amount of finished cloth, in exchange for a cash payment. The agreements were drawn up in terms of a specified number of women’s garments, usually of black...

..., subsidized by the Bollingen Foundation, which uses essentially the same colored plates but presents us additionally with a longer selection of monochrome photographs, more of the author’s excellent diagrams of diverse weaves and knots, an expanded bibliography brought up to date, and some additional material...

... and plows. Two chapters reflect the types of internal debates found in Semillas de industria . June Nash points to the surprising persistence of weaving as a domestic form of production among many highland Chiapas communities. She views the traditional motifs women weave into their huipiles as a form...

... chapters on test cases: the blowgun, funerary house models, animal figures on wheels, and techniques of weaving and dyeing. Finally there are sections on nautical aspects and some conclusions for the general history of culture. No primary research was done for this book. At present, the topic does...

... weaving is also reported. The author points out important cultural differences between Panajachel and the neighboring Indian community of Chichicastenango. Such Indian communities comprise more than one half of the population of Guatemala. The term ladino, applied to the balance of the population...

.... The book’s strength lies in its synthesis of multiple phenomena and in the details it provides as to how, precisely, these broader trends are tied to particular places and events on the mountain. The author weaves together evidence from an impressive variety of sources, including written accounts...

.... Bibliography. Index . x , 353 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Copyright 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Thirteen years after writing a major biography on Emiliano Zapata, Samuel Brunk has produced a thoughtful sequel that weaves the struggle over Zapata’s legacy into the course of modern Mexican history...

... to escape his attention; he weaves the ecological with the economic as deftly as he does the cultural with the political. Border Land, Border Water stands with the best of borderlands histories, by such scholars as Casey Walsh, that demonstrate the importance of transnational development in our globalized...

... of cultural and political power, writing fine novels and running an ill-fated presidential campaign. The other scribbled fiery tracts and dragged his country into a quagmire of bloodshed as leader of the Shining Path guerilla army. Stavans weaves these two narratives together to form a portrait of a deeply...