Textiles as national heritage
Subtitle: identities, politics and material culture : case studies from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Peru
By: Gabriele Mentges, Lola Shamukhitdinova (Eds) ; assisted by Johanna Korbik, Jella Fink, Svenja Adelt and Julia Sattler
Publisher: Waxmann
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Münster; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9783830986096; 9783830936091
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Textile industry; Material culture; Ethnicity; Textiles et tissus; Industrie et commerce; Culture matérielle; Ethnicité; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Customs & Traditions
Description: The edited volume discusses the role of textile heritage in realtion to the dynamics of nation building, cultural identity, politics, economy, and the globalization of markets. It was sparked by a research project investigating the role of textiles, textile design, and contemporary fashion in the post-Soviet societies of Central-Asia and also includes perspectives on similar developments in Algeria and Peru in order to question dichotomous narrations of modernity relations between textile cultures and heritage buliding, cultural property, and the concept of cultural heritage. Thus, this book intends to stimulate the ongoing debate about textile culture as national heritage or as means of nation building. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.