Between the folds
Subtitle: stories of cloth, lives, and travels from Sumba
By: Jill Forshee.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [Honolulu]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Sumbanese (Indonesian people) -- Costume; Sumbanese (Indonesian people) -- Industries; Sumbanese (Indonesian people) -- Commerce; Textile fabrics, Sumbanese; Textile industry -- Indonesia -- Sumba Island; Textile designs -- Indonesia -- Sumba Island; Sumba Island (Indonesia) -- Social life and customs
Description: "Using a narrative approach, Jill Forshee takes readers into diverse lives, including those of villagers traveling to Bali and tourists visiting Sumba, and follows their adventures along various routes over time. Through personal stories of those involved in the contemporary production and trade of local cloth, a vivid account emerges of the inner workings of a so-called "traditional" society and its arts responding inventively to decades of international collecting.

These stories expand anthropological concepts of the boundaries of regions and the certainties of cultures in ways that are tangible and immediate to the reader. Moreoever, the book illuminates some formerly unexplored conditions of artistic provenance."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-258) and index.