Voices of Weavers

Download or read book Voices of Weavers written by Jella Fink and published by Waxmann Verlag. This book was released on 2020 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of weavers and their textile creations form the central subject in this monograph. It explores an understudied field of material culture studies in contemporary Myanmar. Textile cultures, craftsmanship and (national) identity are the core topoi of this work. Embedded in a century of shifting political and economic systems, the documented weaving cultures enhance our understanding of transformation processes on the local level. This book brings together current impulses of material culture studies and observations based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork data.