Weaving identities
Subtitle: construction of dress and self in a highland Guatemala town
By: by Carol Hendrickson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Cakchikel Indians -- Costume; Cakchikel textile fabrics -- Guatemala -- Tecpán Guatemala; Costume -- Symbolic aspects -- Guatemala -- Tecpán Guatemala; Costume -- Social aspects -- Guatemala -- Tecpán Guatemala; Tecpán Guatemala (Guatemala) -- Social life and customs
Description: "An innovative ethnography of Maya traje that describes the social life of cloth, its role in the construction of identity, and its part in the changing structure of regional gender relations. Traje empowers, brings women into the global market, and is an enduring of symbol cultural knowledge"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-234) and index.