Textiles, technical practice, and power in the Andes
By: edited by Denise Y. Arnold with Penelope Dransart
Publisher: Archetype Publications
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781909492080
Subjects: Indian textile fabrics; Weaving
Description: "This book explores the importance of textiles in Andean societies, past and present, as vital indicators of regional ideas about technique and technology, and the ways these interact with power relations, including gender and class relations. The focus is on Andean textiles from a weaver's point of view, as living things which express a complex three-dimensional worldview through their structures, techniques and iconography. These ontological conceptions are traced through the various tasks and processes in the productive chain of textile making, and the manifold ways in which the ideas about a finished textile product refer back continually to these shared experiences in Andean societies. Different thematic approaches examine how the material existence of textiles served, and still serves, as a record of technological knowledge, at the heart of human-centred efforts to integrate and coordinate diverse populations into socio-cultural and productive endeavours in common."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Andean textiles as cultural records, and issues in their documentation. Textiles, knotted khipus, and a semiosis in common: towards a woven language of documentation in the Andes / Denise Y. Arnold ; Practice and meaning in spiral-wrapped batons and cords from Cerrillos, a Late Paracas site in the Ica Valley, Peru / Jeffrey C. Splitstoser ; Andean calendrical knowledge in the royal tunics called tarco huallca: Inca, Huari and Tiahuanaco tunics read as fourfold almanacs / R. T. Zuidema; title: Andean textiles, technology and material culture: Textile technologies and their social consequences. Paracas Necropolis: communities of textile production, exchange networks and social boundaries in the Central Andes, 150 BC to AD 250 / Ann H. Peters ; Weaving the body politic: the integration of technological practice and embodied social identity in the late prehispanic Andes / Anne Tiballi ; Technical reflections of highland-coastal relationships in late prehispanic textiles from Chillon and Chancay / Ann Pollard Rowe; title: Woven techniques, instruments and skilled bodies: being and doing though cloth. Technical competence in weaving as a means of distinction among young Macha women from Tumaykuri, Northern Potosí, Bolivia / Cassandra Torrico ; Thoughts on productive knowledge in Andean weaving with discontinuous warp and weft / Penelope Dransart ; Prehispanic textile production in Highland Bolivia: instruments for spinning and weaving processes / Claudia Rivera Casanovas; title: Textiles as visual records of technological knowledge and worldview. The Dumbarton Oaks royal tunic perceived as a register of Inca worldview / Gail Silverman ; On the relation between Andean textile iconography and woven techniques / Denise Y. Arnold, Miriam de Diego and Elvira Espejo ;; title: Woven techniques and social interactions in the South Central Andes: ladder designs and the visualisation of productive output / Elvira Espejo and Denise Y. Arnold ; On textiles and alterity in the Recuay culture (AD 200-700), Ancash, Peru / George Lau.